{"id":41958,"date":"2021-03-31T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=f4203e636885d72bf6059bea3e2343a7"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:50:13","slug":"amazon-is-reportedly-developing-custom-networking-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-is-reportedly-developing-custom-networking-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is reportedly developing custom networking chips"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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31 Mar, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amazon is reportedly gearing up to produce its own networking chips\u00a0in face of the\u00a0global shortage<\/a>,\u00a0The Information<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The in-house chips would be used for Amazon\u2019s internal\u00a0IT infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0AWS<\/a>, speeding up the\u00a0cloud<\/a>\u00a0division\u2019s\u00a0data centre<\/a>\u00a0servers as well as enhancing its\u00a0artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a>\u00a0services, according to the information obtained by the publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move would diminish the need for the company to outsource production, which has proven increasingly unreliable in the past year. Although Amazon already manufactures its semiconductor switches in-house, their production is reliant on silicon supplied by San Jose, California-based company\u00a0Broadcom<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nIn April 2020, the chip manufacturer\u00a0warned customers<\/a>\u00a0that they would be required to place their orders at least six months in advance, instead of the normal two to three months. Broadcom\u2019s VP of sales Nilesh Mistry said that this was due to \u201cunreliable\u201d transport options caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

It isn’t clear\u00a0whether Amazon\u2019s reported decision\u00a0to develop custom silicon chips for its hardware network switches\u00a0was influenced by this issue, but the move will likely make it easier for the tech giant to avoid\u00a0supply chain disruptions<\/a>\u00a0and have more control over its own infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s in-house chip development will be made possible thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Israeli chip manufacturer Annapurna Labs, which the tech giant purchased for $350 million (\u00a3254 million).<\/p>\n

Israel is also set to be the base of\u00a0Google Cloud\u2019s new server chip design division<\/a>. Last week, the tech giant announced that it had hired Intel\u2019s engineering veteran Uri Frank to lead its increasing investments in custom silicon.<\/p>\n

Google Cloud\u2019s VP of Systems Infrastructure Amin Vahdat\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the company is \u201cthrilled to welcome Uri Frank as our VP of Engineering for server chip design\u201d, adding that the tech giant had \u201clong looked to Israel for novel technologies including Waze, Call Screen, flood forecasting, high-impact features in Search, and Velostrata\u2019s cloud migration tools\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to growing our presence in this global innovation hub,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Apple<\/a>\u00a0has also recently started equipping its\u00a0MacBooks<\/a>\u00a0with its own custom ARM-based processors in order to lessen its reliance on Intel.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

31 Mar, 2021 <\/p>\n

Amazon is reportedly gearing up to produce its own networking chips\u00a0in face of the\u00a0global shortage,\u00a0The Information\u00a0has learned.\u00a0
\nThe in-house chips would be used for Amazon\u2019s internal\u00a0IT infra…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41959,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41958\/revisions\/41959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}