Annapurna Labs is an Israeli microelectronics company. Since January 2015 it has been a wholly owned subsidiary ofAmazon.com. Amazon reportedly acquired the company for itsAmazon Web Services division for US$350–370M.[1][2]
Annapurna Labs, named after theAnnapurna Massif in theHimalayas, was co-founded in 2011[3] by Bilic "Billy" Hrvoje, a BosnianJewishrefugee, Nafea Bshara, anArab Israeli citizen,[4][5] and Ronen Boneh with investments from the independent investorsAvigdor Willenz, Manuel Alba,Andy Bechtolsheim, theventure capital firmWalden International,Arm Holdings,[6] andTSMC. Board members include Avigdor Willenz, Manuel Alba, andLip-Bu Tan, the CEO of Intel.
The first product launched under the AWS umbrella was the AWS Nitro hardware and supporting hypervisor in November 2017.[7] Following on from Nitro, Annapurna developed general-purpose CPUs under theGraviton family and machine-learningASICs under the Trainium and Inferentia brands.[8][9][10]
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".[11][12]
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