Amazon says it has not halted any Nvidia chip orders

:Amazon.com’s cloud companies unit mentioned on Tuesday that it has no longer halted any orders of Nvidia’s most superior chip on the market, but has as a replacement decided to purchase the corporate’s more moderen cutting-edge chip for an upcoming supercomputer mission between the companies.

Earlier, the Financial Cases had reported that Amazon Web Products and companies (AWS), the sector’s largest cloud companies agency, had “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia’s Grace Hopper chip to its more moderen Blackwell graphics processing devices (GPUs), that Nvidia announced in March.

An AWS spokesman told Reuters that the transition from Grace Hopper chips to Blackwell chips applies most practical to Mission Ceiba, a supercomputer that AWS and Nvidia are constructing collectively. AWS continues to present other companies per Nvidia’s Hopper chips, its flagship mannequin for coaching synthetic intelligence systems (AI), the spokesman mentioned.

The Mission Ceiba transition used to be announced by the 2 corporations in March when Nvidia unveiled the new Blackwell chips.

“To be sure, AWS did no longer cease any orders from Nvidia. In our terminate collaboration with Nvidia, we jointly decided to toddle Mission Ceiba from Hopper to Blackwell GPUs, which provide a jump ahead in performance,” an AWS spokesman mentioned in statement.

The Financial Cases amended its earlier story to relate that Amazon’s chip orders had no longer yet been positioned. The newspaper directed a quiz for observation to its updated story.