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Intel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a significant expansion of their strategic collaboration, focusing on custom chip designs under a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar framework. This agreement aims to enhance the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and support various customer workloads.
As part of this collaboration, Intel will produce an AI fabric chip for AWS using its most advanced process node, Intel 18A. Additionally, Intel will create a custom Xeon 6 chip on Intel 3, building on their existing partnership where 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."
Matt Garman, CEO at AWS, stated: "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."
The expanded collaboration emphasizes commitments to accelerating U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturing and fostering a vibrant AI ecosystem in Ohio. Intel is committed to its plans in New Albany for leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing. Concurrently, AWS plans to invest $7.8 billion to expand its data center operations in Central Ohio.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine commented: "This collaboration between Intel and AWS is a great development for U.S.-based manufacturing and solidifying Ohio as a leader in AI."
The companies' partnership spans over 18 years and focuses on helping organizations develop critical workloads in the cloud while reducing costs and complexity. They plan to explore further designs based on future process nodes such as Intel 18AP and Intel 14A.
Forward-looking statements caution that expectations are subject to risks including potential delays or failures in completing transactions or developing products successfully under the framework.
