Amazon Is Considering Selling Its AI Chips to Other Companies

An Amazon Web Services Inc. office in Herndon, Virginia.

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc. is considering selling its chips to other companies, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said Thursday, adding that the cloud-computing giant’s in-house silicon unit is on pace to bring in more than $20 billion over the course of a year.

The disclosure offers a rare glimpse into the scale of Amazon’s in-house chip operation, which produces general-purpose computing and AI accelerators, as well as chips that make the company’s servers run more efficiently.