Annapurna Labs

Annapurna Labs is the Israeli chip company Amazon bought to build much of AWS's internal silicon program. Its work now underpins Trainium, Inferentia, Nitro, and other AWS hardware.

Ecosystem functionAnnapurna proved how valuable good chip acquisitions can be, and what sets it apart is that it became the engine of one hyperscaler's entire custom-silicon strategy.

Business modelCustom chip design within AWS