Amazon CEO Jassy says company could sell AI chips, raising stakes for Nvidia, AMD
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Andy Jassy's comments suggest Amazon may move beyond using its custom Trainium and Inferentia chips solely for internal AWS workloads and begin offering them as a merchant product — effectively entering the AI accelerator market against Nvidia and AMD. Amazon's $716.9B revenue base and deep cloud distribution give it a credible path to monetize silicon at scale, but external chip sales remain nascent and unquantified. The more immediate read-through is competitive pressure on NVDA and AMD: Nvidia's data center segment is running at 71% gross margins on 65% YoY revenue growth, and any credible hyperscaler-as-chip-vendor narrative chips away at that premium multiple. Watch for AWS re:Invent or earnings calls for concrete chip-sales volume disclosures; until then, this is a directional signal, not a structural shift.
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Two-sidedWrong ifNvidia's next earnings print showing sustained data center demand above expectations — or a customer like AWS reaffirming large H100/B200 orders — would invalidate the competitive threat narrative and squeeze the short NVDA leg hard.
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