THE CRUNCH

AWS has agreed to use Qualcomm's chips for AI inference, while Qualcomm will employ AWS's Bedrock service to design its custom silicon. This unusual arrangement sees the cloud provider and chipmaker trading roles in their partnership.

AWS will use Qualcomm's custom chips for AI inference, according to a report. Qualcomm, in turn, is using AWS Bedrock to help design these chips. The partnership spans multiple product generations.

Qualcomm's focus on AI inference for AWS marks a shift from its usual smartphone-centric business model. Using Bedrock for chip design suggests AWS is applying its generative AI tools to hardware development.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

The partnership spans multiple product generations, so we can expect further collaboration between the two companies.