[News] Arm Reportedly Taps Amazon AI Chip Director to Drive In-House Chip Plans

According to Reuters, sources say Arm Holdings has hired Amazon’s AI chip director Rami Sinno to drive its push into developing complete in-house chips. Sinno played a key role in creating Amazon’s custom AI processors, Trainium and Inferentia, designed to train and run large-scale AI applications, the report adds.

Arm’s ambitions to develop its own chips have been circulating for some time. Back in late July, Reuters reported that CEO Rene Haas said the company was increasing investment in potential chiplet and integrated solution development.

At the time, Haas gave no timeline for when the investments might generate profits and withheld details on potential products. He did emphasize, however, that Arm is examining a broad spectrum of chiplet-related possibilities—ranging from a physical chip to a system, or even all of the above, Reuters reported.

Reuters noted that Arm’s plans to build its own chips could put it in direct competition with customers such as NVIDIA, which rely on Arm’s intellectual property. So far, Arm has not built its own chips. Rather, it develops the core architecture and instruction sets that it licenses to customers—including chipmakers like Apple and NVIDIA, as Reuters indicates.

In recent years, Arm has reportedly worked to strengthen its teams dedicated to developing full chips and systems, as Reuters notes. As part of that effort, the company has brought on Nicolas Dube, a former HPE executive with expertise in large-scale systems design, and Steve Halter, a chip engineer with experience at Intel and Qualcomm, according to Reuters, citing sources.

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