Amazon might sell its AI chips to outside customers — taking a shot at Nvidia

Amazon might sell its AI chips to outside customers — taking a shot at Nvidia

The chip business, which carries a $20 billion annual run rate, would reach $50 billion if sold on the open market, CEO Andy Jassy said

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Amazon $AMZN CEO Andy Jassy is floating the prospect of selling the company's Trainium AI chips directly to external buyers, putting a dollar figure on the company's chip operation for the first time and placing its annualized revenue above $20 billion.

"There's so much demand for our chips that it's quite possible we'll sell racks of them to third parties in the future," Jassy wrote in his annual shareholder letter Thursday.

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