Engineering:Annapurna Labs

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Short description: Israel-based microelectronics company

Annapurna Labs is an Israeli microelectronics company. Since January 2015 it has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.com. Amazon reportedly acquired the company for its Amazon Web Services division for US$350–370M.[1][2]

History

Annapurna Labs, named after the Annapurna Massif in the Himalaya s, was co-founded in 2011[3] by Bilic "Billy" Hrvoje, a Bosnian Jewish refugee, Nafea Bshara, an Arab Israeli citizen,[4][5] and Ronen Boneh with investments from the independent investors Avigdor Willenz, Manuel Alba, Andy Bechtolsheim, the venture capital firm Walden International, Arm Holdings,[6] and TSMC. Board members include Avigdor Willenz, Manuel Alba, and Lip-Bu Tan, the CEO of both Walden International and Cadence Design Systems.[7]

The first product launched under the AWS umbrella was the AWS Nitro hardware and supporting hypervisor in November 2017.[8] Following on from Nitro, Annapurna developed general-purpose CPUs under the Graviton family and machine-learning ASICs under the Trainium and Inferentia brands.[9][10][11]

See also

  • AWS Graviton - an ARM based CPU developed by Annapurna Labs for exclusive use by Amazon Web Services.

References

  1. ↑ "Amazon to buy Israeli start-up Annapurna Labs". Reuters. 22 January 2015. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-annapurna-m-a-amazon-com-idUSKBN0KV0SG20150122. 
  2. ↑ "Amazon buys secretive chip maker Annapurna Labs for $350 million". ExtremeTech. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/198140-amazon-buys-secretive-chip-maker-annapurna-labs-for-350-million. 
  3. ↑ Clark, Greg; Bensinger, Dan (2016-01-06). "Amazon Enters Semiconductor Business With Its Own Branded Chips". The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-enters-semiconductor-business-with-its-own-branded-chips-1452124921. 
  4. ↑ "Annapurna Labs: AWS' Secret Sauce". https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/03/10/how-an-acquisition-made-by-amazon-in-2016-became-companys-secret-sauce/. 
  5. ↑ Rebecca Kopans. "If you can dream it, you can do it". https://www.technion.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/FOCUS-FEBRUARY-2018.pdf. 
  6. ↑ Kristen Lisa. "AWS and ARM: Working together to re-invent the cloud". https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/11/arm-and-aws-working-together-to-reinvent-the-cloud. 
  7. ↑ "Semiconductors fueling Cloud!". semiwiki.com. https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f2/semiconductors-fueling-cloud-5383.html. 
  8. ↑ Liguori, A (2018). "The Nitro Project–Next Generation AWS Infrastructure". Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)). https://old.hotchips.org/hc31/HC31_T1_AWS_Nitro_Hot_Chips_20190818-2.pdf. Retrieved 13 October 2023. 
  9. ↑ Tarasov, Katie (12 August 2023). "How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips" (in en). CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/12/amazon-is-racing-to-catch-up-in-generative-ai-with-custom-aws-chips.html. 
  10. ↑ Bass, Dina (2023-02-21). "Amazon's Cloud Unit Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up". Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/amazon-s-aws-joins-with-ai-startup-hugging-face-as-chatgpt-competition-heats-up. 
  11. ↑ Nellis, Stephen (2023-02-21). "Amazon Web Services pairs with Hugging Face to target AI developers". Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-web-services-pairs-with-hugging-face-target-ai-developers-2023-02-21/. 

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