Amazon’s Custom Chips

Amazon designs and builds custom chips that deliver industry-leading price-performance for AI workloads and cloud computing. From Trainium for AI training and inference to Graviton for general-purpose workloads, our chips power the next generation of innovation.

Our chips are purpose-built for cloud and AI workloads, delivering the price-performance, scale, and efficiency that let more builders push AI forward.

Amazon has invested over a decade in custom silicon, designing chips in lockstep with the teams building frontier AI models. The result: hardware that arrives optimized for real customer workloads, manufactured and deployed at unprecedented speed and scale.

Learn about Amazon's custom chip innovations

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