Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – Amazon.com’s cloud services unit said on Tuesday it had not suspended orders for Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:) most advanced chip on the market, but had instead decided to purchase the company’s new state-of-the-art chip for an upcoming supercomputing project between the companies.
The Financial Times previously reported that Amazon (NASDAQ:) Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud services company, has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for the Nvidia Grace Hopper chip to its new Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs). which Nvidia announced in March.
An AWS spokesperson told Reuters that the move from Grace Hopper chips to Blackwell chips only applies to Project Ceiba, the supercomputer that AWS and Nvidia are building together. AWS continues to offer other services based on Nvidia’s Hopper chips, its flagship model for training artificial intelligence (AI) systems, the spokesperson said.
Both companies announced the Project Ceiba transition in March, when Nvidia introduced new Blackwell chips.
“To be clear, AWS has not stopped fulfilling orders from Nvidia. In our close collaboration with Nvidia, we have jointly decided to migrate Project Ceiba from Hopper GPUs to Blackwell GPUs, which offer a leap forward in performance,” an AWS spokesperson said in a statement.
The Financial Times corrected its previous article to say that orders for the Amazon chips had not yet been placed. The newspaper sent a request for comment on the updated article.