AWS halts orders of Nvidia ‘superchip’ to await updated model, FT reports

Amazon Web Services (AMZN) has halted orders of Nvidia’s “superchip” in order to wait for a more powerful new model, The Financial Times’ Camilla Hodgson, Tim Bradshaw, and Michael Acton report. Nvidia unveiled a new generation of processors called Blackwell in March, barely a year after its predecessor Hopper began to be shipped to customers. AWS told the FT that it “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia’s Grace Hopper superchip, which was launched in August, and replaced them with its successor Grace Blackwell. AWS said the move “made sense” given “that the window between Grace Hopper and Grace Blackwell was small.”