This is a significant expansion of the two companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to support and accelerate the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
As part of the expanded collaboration, Intel will produce an AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A, its most advanced process node. Intel will also produce a custom Xeon 6 chip on Intel 3, building on the existing partnership under which Intel produces Xeon Scalable processors for AWS.
“This expansion of our longtime relationship with AWS reflects the strength of our process technology and delivers differentiated solutions for customer workloads,” said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO. “Intel’s chip design and manufacturing capabilities, combined with the comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, AI and machine learning services of AWS, will unleash innovation across our shared ecosystem and support the growth of both businesses, as well as a sustainable domestic AI supply chain.”
“By co-developing next-generation AI fabric chips on Intel 18A, we continue our long-standing collaboration, dating back to 2006 when we launched the first Amazon EC2 instance featuring their chips,” explained Matt Garman, CEO at AWS. “Our continued collaboration allows us to empower our joint customers with the ability to run any workload and unlock new AI capabilities.”
With this expanded collaboration, Intel and AWS have underscored their commitments to accelerating and supporting US-based semiconductor manufacturing and creating a vibrant AI ecosystem in Ohio.
Intel said that it remains committed to the New Albany area and its plans to build leading edge semiconductor manufacturing. AWS is planning to invest $7.8 billion to expand its data centre operations in Central Ohio, in addition to the $10.3 billion it has invested in the state of Ohio since 2015.
“This collaboration between Intel and AWS is a great development for US-based manufacturing and solidifying Ohio as a leader in AI,” said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. “This announcement furthers Intel’s commitment to US manufacturing sites, like Ohio’s, as well as AWS’s commitment to its nearly decade-long investment in our state.”
AWS and Intel have worked together for over 18-years and going forward, Intel and AWS said that they intend to explore the potential for further designs to be produced by Intel based on Intel 18A and future process nodes including Intel 18AP and Intel 14A, which is expected to be produced in Intel’s Ohio facilities, as well as the migration of existing Intel designs to these platforms.
