TechCrunch Industry News Amazon releases an impressive new AI chip and teases a Nvidia-friendly roadmap; also, India plans to verify and record every smartphone in circulation
Dec 2, 2025
Amazon has unveiled a powerful AI training chip, Trainium 3, boasting impressive speed and energy efficiency. It's positioned to cut costs for early adopters like Anthropic and is set to support NVIDIA's GPU architecture in its upcoming iteration. Meanwhile, India is expanding its cybersecurity initiative to verify and record all smartphones, sparking privacy debates as the government tackles device theft and fraud. Critics are voicing concerns over potential data governance issues linked to this broad tracking initiative.
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Trainium 3 Delivers Big Efficiency And Speed Gains
- AWS's Trainium 3 Ultra Server uses a 3nm Trainium 3 chip and custom networking to boost AI training and inference performance.
- The systems are claimed to be over four times faster with 40% better energy efficiency versus the prior generation.
Massive Scale And Cost Savings
- Thousands of Ultra Servers can be linked to provide apps with up to 1 million Trainium-3 chips and each server can host 144 chips.
- AWS says customers have significantly cut inference costs using the third-gen chip and systems.
Tranium 4 Will Play Nicely With NVIDIA
- AWS teased Trainium 4 will support NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion to interoperate with NVIDIA GPUs.
- That compatibility could attract AI apps built on NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem to AWS cloud services.