According to the company, Trainum3 will be the first Amazon chip to be fabricated with 3nm and will likely be produced by TSMC. It is expected to appear at the end of next year.
AWS CEO Matt Garman, speaking during his keynote, said that the Trainium3 chip will be up to twice as fast as its predecessor, Trainium2, while offering 40% better energy efficiency; while Amazon’s UltraServers powered by Trainium3 are expected to deliver four times the performance of those using Trainium2 chips.
Amazon has also unveiled new data centre servers featuring the company’s proprietary Trainium2 AI chips. The new server is said to have a growing roster of new clients, with Apple as a new customer.
AWS newly unveiled Trn2 UltraServers are seen as rivalling NVIDIA’s flagship servers, which feature 72 of its cutting-edge Blackwell chips, and according to Gadi Hutt, AWS’s head of AI chip business development, AWS can link a larger number of chips together compared to NVIDIA. That’s according to reports from Reuters.
Citing Hutt, Reuters also suggested that Trainium2 could offer customers greater computational power than NVIDIA’s current offerings, while also delivering cost savings, noting that certain AI models could be trained at 40% lower costs compared to using NVIDIA’s chips.
