Topic: Infrastructure

Data centres, interconnect, cloud platforms and the systems that host AI at scale.

  • Amazon

    Amazon

    AWS designs Trainium and Inferentia through Annapurna Labs. You can rent them; you can never buy them.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft

    Azure Maia and Cobalt exist to make Microsoft less dependent on the chips it buys. Neither is sold.

  • Intel

    Intel

    The last American company that both designs and fabricates leading-edge logic — now trying to be a foundry and an AI vendor…

  • Broadcom

    Broadcom

    Builds AI chips you have never heard of, for customers it cannot name, and the networking silicon that connects everyone else’s.

  • NVIDIA

    NVIDIA

    The merchant standard for AI compute. Its real moat is CUDA, not the silicon.

  • AMD

    AMD

    The main open-ecosystem challenger to NVIDIA, betting that ROCm can break a software monopoly.

  • Google

    Google

    Designs the TPU, the leading non-NVIDIA AI accelerator. You cannot buy one — you can only rent it.