Ampere’s CEO sings Amazon’s praise to chips because he “has a prominent team”

• At the Fortune of the Rain Fortuna On Wednesday, in London, Renée James, the CEO of Ampere, praised the “prominent team” of Amazon dedicated to the manufacture of chips. “They have a really unique way to accelerate data within their own network,” James said.

Renée JamesSemiconductors designer CEO AmideHe praised Amazon’s efforts to make his own chips.

The technological giant, James, had a team that has been together for a long time, which according to her is essential for success in the business of complex and competitive semiconductors.

)Amazon He has a prominent team they have had for years, “James said at the Brainstorm Ai Fortune Conference in London on Wednesday.” One of the successful semiconductors badge is, how many generations a team has done together? And the answer to Amazon is a lot. “”

In recent years, Amazon has been developing his own AI chip suite. This effort is part of a strategy in Offer Amazon customers your own hardware to go along with its cloud computer services. Amazon previously had a chip that was not called graviton. It now also has two ai chips called Trainium and Inferentia, which specializes (as the names suggest) in training models and the provision of predictions for the already formed, respectively.

In February, Amazon moved more into the chip design borders when announced First quantum computing chipcalled Ocelot.

The Amazon Development Team and its scale as a company placed it in a good position, according to James.

“They have a really unique way to accelerate data within their own network,” James said. “And they have a prominent silicon team that has been able to build really fantastic products for their own use. I think, given their strength and team, they will remain very successful with this strategy.”

The new chips that Amazon is developing rival those of the main actors in the industry such as Nvidia and Smart. James began his long career in the semiconductor business in Intel, where he worked for almost 30 years, finally served as president of the company.

In 2017, he founded Ampere: an ambitious play taking into account the technical experience and capital investment needed to enter the semiconductor business. James said he saw an opportunity to design new types of cards due to increasing cloud computing.

“We knew that the way the software used by Cloud was different from the way the software consumed by the company (which was) on this linear scale, always on demand (way) and the microprocessors we had built had to light and deactivate to be efficient for different workloads, but not for the cloud?” James explained. “So this was our thesis.”

Ampere launched with initial investments of Oracle and the Carlyle groupsomething James said “they do not usually venture.” In March, Masayoshi Softbank Group are announced that I would buy Ampere for 6.5 billion dollars. Ampere is expected to play some role in the recently announced Project Stargate Initiative to build data centers across the country.

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