British chip designer Arm Holdings has reportedly recruited one of Amazon Web Services' top chip engineers.

Rami Sinno ran engineering teams at Arm before joining Amazon's Annapurna Labs team in 2019, where he oversaw the development of the cloud giant's Trainium and Inferentia chips.

According to a Reuters report citing persons familiar with the matter, Sinno will return to Arm, to support the company's pivot from IP design house to silicon slinger.

Sinno has experience with both physical silicon and machine learning infrastructure, but it remains unclear whether his efforts at Arm will involve dedicated AI accelerators like Trainium and Inferentia or chip house's bread and butter CPUs.

Arm declined to comment. El Reg also reached out to Sinno for comment, but had not heard back at th

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