Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s cloud unit keeps trying to eat away at Intel Corp.\u2019s stranglehold on the server chip market.<\/p>\n
Amazon\u00a0Web<\/span>\u00a0Services has developed a more powerful version of its own chips to power services for cloud-computing customers, as well as some of AWS\u2019s own programs. AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy on Tuesday introduced a second-generation chip, called Graviton2, aimed at general-purpose computing tasks. He didn\u2019t specify a release date.<\/p>\n The company last year unveiled its first line of Graviton chips, which it said would support new versions of its main EC2 cloud-computing service. Prior to that, Amazon — and other big cloud operators — had almost exclusively used Intel Xeon chips.<\/p>\n The company said at the time that the Graviton-backed cloud service would be available at a \u201csignificantly lower cost\u201d than existing offerings run on Intel processors.<\/p>\n Intel\u2019s chips account for more than 90% of the server chip market and handle most tasks at the biggest cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google. But these companies are also announcing plans to use Intel\u2019s main rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.<\/p>\n AMD has forecast it will top 10% in server processor market share by mid-2020, a target that analysts at Instinet LLC said in a note is achievable.<\/p>\n Jassy said on Tuesday that Intel is \u201ca very close partner,\u201d but that to push the envelope on prices, \u201cwe had to do some innovating ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Amazon is using its 2015 acquisition of startup Annapurna Labs, which Jassy called a \u201ca big turning point for us,\u201d to design its own chips. The new processor uses technology from SoftBank Group Corp. unit ARM Holdings, a standard that dominates in mobile phones.<\/p>\n Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s cloud unit keeps trying to eat away at Intel Corp.\u2019s stranglehold on the server chip market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":281743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[723,16156,131,16484],"class_list":["post-331238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon","tag-chip-development","tag-intel","tag-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331248,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331238\/revisions\/331248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Intel unveils new high-performance graphics card<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"