AWS has not halted any orders of Nvidia’s Grace Hopper chip, Reuters reports

Amazon Web Services (AMZN) said it has not halted orders of Nvidia’s (NVDA) Grace Hopper chip, but has instead decided to purchase the company’s newer state of the art chip for an upcoming supercomputer project between the companies, Reuters’ Stephen Nellis reports. The Financial Times previously reported that AWS “fully transitioned” previous orders for the Grace Hopper chip to the newer Blackwell graphics processing units, but an AWS spokesman told Reuters that the transition from Grace Hopper chips to Blackwell chips applies only to Project Ceiba, a supercomputer that AWS and Nvidia are building together. AWS continues to offer other services based on Nvidia’s Hopper chips, its flagship model for training artificial intelligence systems, the spokesman said. “To be clear, AWS did not halt any orders from Nvidia. In our close collaboration with Nvidia, we jointly decided to move Project Ceiba from Hopper to Blackwell GPUs, which offer a leap forward in performance,” an AWS spokesman said in statement.