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From the Aug 29, 2026 daily brief

AWS has been building Trainium, its own AI training chip, for years, and the market has read that line as a transitional arrangement on the way to replacing NVIDIA. Plugging your own component into the other side's interconnect ecosystem is a deeper commitment than buying cards, and it runs the opposite way to replacement: the doubling-down has moved off the purchase order and into the architecture. An anchor you can watch yourself: in the next announcement, whether AWS's own components move one step further into NVIDIA's interconnect ecosystem, or start growing a stack of their own.

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