AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown
The Next Platform, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to resurgence, it was Intel that controlled the cadence of new compute engine introductions into the datacenter.
Given this week, which started off with Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger being ousted and Amazon Web Services hosting its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with 60,000 people attending in person and 400,000 people attending online, it is all too obvious who controls the pace of technology rollouts at the hyperscalers and cloud builders.
They do.