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Amazon: Custom Silicon

Amazon, a global technology giant, is a major player in AI infrastructure and is the largest hyperscale cloud provider globally. Amazon is developing its vertical integration strategy by designing custom silicon, including chips for AI training, AI inference, networking, and general-purpose workloads.

Custom AI ASICs Used by Hyperscalers as AI Chips

Innovation map of Custom AI Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) used by hyperscalers as AI chips.

Direct Air Capture: Reaching a Capture Cost of US$100/Tonne of CO₂

Direct air capture (DAC) could play an essential role in meeting global net-zero targets by addressing residual and legacy CO₂ emissions. However, capture costs are currently too high. This IDTechEx article explores pathways to lower-cost DAC.

Apptronik, Inc

Apptronik, Inc has emerged as a leader in humanoid robotics, combining advanced engineering with strategic partnerships to address industrial and future consumer needs. Founded in 2016 by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, the company now employs over 150 people and collaborates with NASA and Google DeepMind and major manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz and GXO Logistics.

Preferred Computational Chemistry (PFCC)/MATLANTIS: Early 2025 Update

Preferred Computational Chemistry (PFCC)'s MATLANTIS platform uses deep learning to provide universal atomistic simulation at high speed. IDTechEx caught up with PFCC's team at Neo-Functional Materials 2025.

Green Computing Ecosystems: IDTechEx Explores Sustainable Data Centers

Data centers can be likened to an ecosystem of computing facilities that contain many facets required to store and handle data. IDTechEx's latest report, "Sustainability for Data Centers 2025-2035: Green Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", unpacks efforts being made in the data center sector towards increased sustainability in response to the rising CO2 emissions from the development of AI.

Green Technologies Continue to Thrive - IDTechEx and Sustainability

As the United States withdraws from the 2015 Paris Agreement, which established globally shared goals that pledged to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, concerns about the future of sustainable technologies are growing. However, IDTechEx identifies key areas where sustainable growth can remain a reality.

IDTechEx Explores Big Tech's Impact on the Quantum Computing Market

In the last few months, three of the world's largest tech giants made waves with their announcements in quantum computing. But what will the impact of Microsoft's Majorana 1, Google's Willow, and Amazon's Ocelot be once the dust has settled, and is it just big tech making strides in developing quantum computers?

Data Centers Investing in Nuclear, Fuel Cells, and Li-ion Batteries

IDTechEx forecasts that by 2035, the global data center sector will have saved US$150 billion by using low-carbon energy sources compared to a fossil fuel scenario (taking 2024 as the baseline). Some emerging energy technologies expected to play an increasingly important role are explored in this article.

Data Center Construction

innovation map of data center construction.

Upcoming Webinar on Sustainability for Data Centers

Thursday 20 February 2025 - Data Center Energy Use Exceeds Sweden's Annual Consumption, Driving Demand for Sustainable Technologies; Energy consumption overview; Regional regulations and hyperscalers' actions and targets; Scope 2: Power generation technology benchmarking and cost analysis; Scope 2: Energy efficiency trend of data center IT, thermal and electrical components; Scope 3 decarbonization technologies; Market size forecast of carbon-free energy for data center and future opportunities

Is the Quantum Computing Market Going Through a Teenage Phase?

Quantum computing is growing closer to realizing its full potential, pipe dreams have become tangible five-year plans, and more and more players are earning their own money for the first time. Finally, time will pass quicker than many appreciate in the years ahead - don't blink and miss the quantum computing market grow up, and the chance to leverage its disruptive potential at maturity.