Annapurna Labs is an Israeli microelectronics company. Since January 2015 it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of

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. Amazon reportedly acquired the company for its

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division for US$350–370M.

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Annapurna Labs, named after the

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in the

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s, was co-founded in 2011 by Bilic "Billy" Hrvoje, a Bosnian

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, Nafea Bshara, an Arab Israeli citizen, and Ronen Boneh with investments from the independent investors Avigdor Willenz, Manuel Alba,

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, the

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firm Walden International,

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, and

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. Board members include Avigdor Willenz, Manuel Alba, and Lip-Bu Tan, the CEO of Walden International and executive chairman of

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. The first product launched under the AWS umbrella was the AWS Nitro hardware and supporting hypervisor in November 2017. Following on from Nitro, Annapurna developed general-purpose CPUs under the

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family and machine-learning

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s under the Trainium and Inferentia brands. In November 2024 Annapurna announced their second generation Trainium 2 intended for training AI models. Based on their internal testing, Amazon are claiming "a 4-times performance increase between Trainium 1 and Trainium 2".

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