AWS Boosts Memory Capacity On Graviton 4 Compute
With its Graviton 4 homegrown Graviton 4 Arm server processors, Amazon Web Services has put into the field a CPU that can compete with all but the toppest of bin parts from AMD for X86 CPUs and Ampere Computing and Nvidia for Arm CPUs, and it is driving price/performance that will in turn drive their adoption for Amazon’s various business units and for its IT infrastructure rental customers on AWS.
And now, the Graviton 4 processors are getting a memory boost, which in turn will allow them to take on more jobs that are bound by memory capacity and memory bandwidth.
The Graviton 4 processors were launched in November 2023, and are based on the “Demeter” Neoverse V2 core from Arm Ltd. There are lots of things we don’t know about the Graviton 4 processor, shown in the feature image at the top of this story, and we have tried to piece together what is known and fill in the blanks to give a more complete picture of how this Arm CPU stacks up to its predecessors and rival X86 and Arm chips in the datacenter. Take a gander:
As you can see, the Annapurna Labs division of AWS, which creates its “Nitro” DPUs as well as its Graviton CPUs, its “Trainium” AI training XPUs, and its “Inferentia” AI inference XPUs, has come a long way in its balancing act of pushing up to the state of the art in design and pushing down in terms of making these chips affordable and still profitable for AWS.
