Arm Holdings said to poach Amazon AI chip exec

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Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ARM]) has roped in Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMZN]) artificial intelligence chip director Rami Sinno as the British semiconductor designer moves ahead with its plans to build its own complete chips, _Reuters _reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Sinno played a key role in the development of Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMZN]) homegrown AI chips Trainium and Inferentia, which are designed to help build and run large AI applications.

Arm (NASDAQ:ARM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ARM]), majority owned by SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SFTBY]), designs and licenses the core architecture for processors developed by companies like Apple (AAPL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AAPL]) and Nvidia (NVDA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/NVDA]).

In July, Arm's (ARM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ARM]) CEO Rene Haas said it ramped up investment into R&D as it was weighing [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4806452-arm-holdings-plc-arm-q1-2026-earnings-call-transcript] developing its own chips. "We are continuing to explore the possibility of moving beyond our current platform into additional compute to subsystems, chiplets and potentially full-end solutions."

The company has been bolstering its team for this effort [https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/arm-hires-amazon-ai-exec-boost-plans-build-its-own-chips-2025-08-18/], including hiring Nicolas Dube, an HPE (HPE [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/HPE]) executive with large-scale systems design experience, and Steve Halter, a chip engineer from Intel and Qualcomm (QCOM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/QCOM]).

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