Stratechery: Amazon's Trainium Bet Paying Off as Industry Shifts from Training to Inference
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Ben Thompson's Stratechery analysis argues that Amazon's bet on custom Trainium silicon is paying off as the AI industry shifts away from training toward inference and agents. The shift toward inference workloads — where cost-per-query matters more than peak training throughput — plays to AWS's strength in commodity-scale infrastructure. Thompson positions Trainium as AWS's answer to the question of whether you need NVIDIA GPUs for the inference-dominated future.