Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky recently visited Israel to check on the company's research and development center focused on artificial intelligence (AI) chips. This move highlights AWS's growing interest in AI and its commitment to developing custom chips for cloud computing and storage-intensive workloads.
AWS has been investing heavily in custom silicon, including AI processors like AWS Inferentia machine learning chips and Trainium ML processors for training deep learning models. The company believes that its custom processors can help customers save money and improve performance.
In fact, AWS's Graviton4 processor has shown impressive results, outperforming other x86 processors at a 20% lower price. This has led to 40-50% price-performance gains for customers while also reducing power consumption and carbon footprint.
The visit to Israel is also significant, given the country's growing importance in the tech industry. AWS has already launched an infrastructure region in Israel, which is estimated to support around 7,700 full-time equivalent jobs annually through a planned investment of $7.2 billion.
