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The Little Known Chip Lab Behind Amazon’s Success

2025/5/12
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WSJ Tech News Briefing

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Joanna Stern: 苹果公司目前面临着巨大的挑战,其AI能力,特别是Siri,尚未达到预期。这关系到苹果公司的长期发展,甚至生存。苹果公司需要决定是继续专注于硬件,还是将更多精力投入到软件,特别是Siri的改进上。如果苹果公司在AI领域失败,Siri无法满足用户的期望,那么苹果的硬件产品可能会沦为其他AI公司软件的载体,甚至可能被其他公司在硬件领域超越。但如果苹果公司能够成功开发出强大的AI系统,例如一个功能强大的Siri,那么它将能够巩固其在硬件和软件领域的领先地位,并进一步拓展其产品线。苹果公司高管也意识到了AI的重要性,并将其视为对其业务的生存威胁。 Ben Cohen: Annapurna Labs是一家鲜为人知的芯片设计公司,它对亚马逊的成功起到了至关重要的作用。亚马逊在2015年收购了Annapurna Labs,其定制芯片是亚马逊AWS(亚马逊网络服务)AI战略的基础。Annapurna Labs设计的Trainium芯片用于训练AI模型,Graviton CPU芯片也为AWS提供了重要的计算能力。这些芯片不仅提高了AWS客户的价格性能比,还为客户提供了多样化的选择,增强了AWS的竞争力。Annapurna Labs的芯片对亚马逊的AI战略至关重要,亚马逊在AI基础设施上的巨额投资也体现了这一点。

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Annapurna Labs is not a household name, but its chips play a major role in Amazon Web Services and the company’s broader AI strategy. WSJ Science of Success columnist Ben Cohen explains. Plus, Apple) is facing an existential crisis: Should it keep focusing on hardware or pour its energy into improving its software, namely Siri? WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern describes what the two paths could look like for the iPhone-maker.

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