The evolution of ML accelerator chips’ and servers’ designs from general purpose to task optimized

Bio:

Nafea Bshara, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, leads the strategy and architecture for AWS custom hardware, including Nitro DPU, Nitro SSD, SRD, Graviton Server chips, Trainium Machine Learning accelerators, and Neuron ML SDK. Nafea began his career at Galileo Technology, where he held various leading roles in software and chip design for network, storage, and compute infrastructure, culminating in his position as Chief Architect. Following Galileo’s acquisition by Marvell Semiconductor in 2001, Nafea joined Marvell and served in several product definition roles. In 2011, he co-founded Annapurna Labs, a startup focused on designing cloud-optimized infrastructure chips and associated software. Amazon acquired Annapurna Labs in February 2015, after which Nafea and his team have led Amazon’s datacenter custom silicon and hardware efforts. Nafea holds an M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and has been granted over 350 granted US patents