back to article Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net

Amazon Web Services teased its next gen AI accelerator dubbed Trainium3 at re:Invent on Tuesday, which it says will deliver 4x higher performance than its predecessor when it arrives late next year. Details on the part are still quite thin, however, speaking with The Register ahead of re:Invent, Gadi Hutt, director of product …

  1. Mentat74
    Devil

    So Amazon has a new bullcr*ap generator...

    That's 4 times faster than it's previous bullcr*p generator ?

    Or will it generate 4 times the amount of bullcr*p in the same amount of time ?

    (Maybe it's time for ElReg to introduce a new bullcr*p icon...)

  2. Inventor of the Marmite Laser Silver badge

    Clippy on amphetamine

    Drugs are bad, m'kay?

  3. Martin Gregorie

    Some performance parameters appear to have been omitted.

    I'd hoped to see power consumption figures and a comparison of how this compares with their current kit.

    This seems like a strange omission in view ot the recent efforts being made to extract enough power from national electricity grids to meet the projected requirements of newer and biggger AI equipped data centers.

  4. Sceptic Tank Silver badge
    Trollface

    Energy2nonsense

    Does this thing have any practical uses?

  5. nautica Silver badge
    Holmes

    Title: " Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon...". "AI"...; "promises"...; yaaawn....

    Now, "Amazon Promises 4x Faster Prime Delivery" would really be news.

    "AI" is the new "cold fusion".

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    "It is my experience that the reason people are interested in 'artificial intelligence' is for exactly the same reason some people are interested in artificial limbs...they are missing one. [paraphrase]

    "Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers."

    David L. Parnas

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