Amazon vs Arm Holdings

Amazon — Application · Public · $2.8T mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Arm Holdings — Hardware · Public · $282.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Arm CSS for Mobile 2 and AWS Trainium do comparable work on accelerator silicon; larger scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

3 of 6 capabilities — Shares AI compute hardware, accelerator silicon and model inference.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship hardware.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — Amazon: $2.8T market cap, against Arm Holdings's $282.8B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldAmazonArm Holdings
Market cap$2.8T$282.8B Arm Holdings has 9.9× smaller
Employees1,576,0009,584 Arm Holdings has 164× fewer
Founded19941990 4 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationHardware
Stack layerAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, Hardware, Model API, PlatformHardware
HeadquartersSeattle, USACambridge, United Kingdom

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareModel inference

Not verified for Arm Holdings · 20

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingClinical documentationCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityModel hostingModel trainingKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText to speechTranslationVector searchVideo analyticsVoice agentSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for Amazon. Arm Holdings’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Amazon · 3

Autonomous drivingIP licensingRobot control

Recorded for Arm Holdings. Amazon’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Amazon

Hardware

AWS InferentiaHardware

AWS's custom silicon for machine learning inference, purchased via Amazon EC2 Inf1 and Inf2 instances rather than as a standalone chip.

AWS TrainiumHardware

Amazon's own training accelerator, rented by the hour inside EC2 instances rather than sold as a part.

Arm Holdings

Hardware

Arm AGI CPUHardware

Arm's first self-designed, TSMC-manufactured production CPU — up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores on 3nm — built for sustained agentic-AI data-centre workloads and co-developed with lead customer Meta.

Arm CSS for Mobile 2Hardware

Arm's second-generation mobile compute subsystem — the C2 CPU cluster (C2-Ultra, C2-Pro) with SME2 for on-device agentic AI — positioned by Arm against "the previous generation Arm (Lumex) reference platform".

Arm Ethos-U55Hardware

A licensable microNPU IP core that adds on-device ML inference to area- and power-constrained embedded and IoT designs paired with Cortex-M processors.

Arm Ethos-U65Hardware

A licensable microNPU IP core delivering roughly double the on-device inference performance of Ethos-U55, for Cortex-A, Cortex-R and Neoverse-based edge systems.

Arm Ethos-U85Hardware

Neural processing unit designs licensed to chip makers for running models on edge and mobile devices.

Arm Lumex CSSHardware

Arm's AI-first mobile Compute Subsystem, a licensable CPU, GPU and system-IP bundle for on-device generative AI, shipping in the vivo X300 and OPPO Find X9.

Arm NeoverseHardware

CPU designs licensed to chip makers for servers and data-centre silicon, including the host processors in AI systems.

Arm Neoverse CSS N4Hardware

A configurable, pre-validated compute subsystem built on Neoverse N4 cores (8–128 cores per die, Armv9.3, up to 3.8 GHz on 3 nm) with integrated system IP, delivered to partners as RTL for agentic-infrastructure silicon.

Arm Zena CSSHardware

A licensable physical-AI Compute Subsystem combining Cortex-A and Cortex-R processors with system IP for safety-relevant AI-defined vehicle and robotics SoCs.

No counterpart

Amazon sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Arm Holdings yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

Alexa+Application

Amazon's generative-AI Alexa: a conversational assistant across Echo devices and the Alexa app that handles multi-step requests, remembers context and acts on behalf of the user.

API service

AWS HealthScribeAPI service

HIPAA-eligible service that transcribes patient-clinician conversations and generates preliminary clinical documentation with evidence mapping back to the transcript.

Amazon ComprehendAPI service

Natural-language-processing service that extracts key phrases, sentiment, entities, document classification and PII redaction from text.

Amazon LexAPI service

A managed AWS service for building voice and text conversational bots, built on the same technology as Alexa.

Amazon PersonalizeAPI service

Recommendation engine trained on user-interaction data to deliver real-time personalized recommendations across web, app and marketing channels.

Amazon PollyAPI service

A managed AWS API that converts text into synthesized speech across more than 40 languages and voice styles.

Amazon RekognitionAPI service

A managed AWS API for image and video analysis, including object and face detection, text extraction from images and content moderation.

Amazon TextractAPI service

A managed AWS API that extracts text, handwriting, forms and tables from scanned documents.

Amazon TranscribeAPI service

A managed AWS API that converts speech to text using an automatic speech recognition model.

Amazon TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation service for batch and real-time cross-lingual text translation with brand-terminology customization.

Agent platform

Amazon Connect HealthAgent platform

Agentic AI for healthcare providers and health-tech developers: patient verification, appointment management, ambient clinical documentation, patient insights and medical coding, delivered inside Amazon Connect Customer for patient engagement and via an SDK at the point of care.

Amazon Nova ActAgent platform

An AWS platform for building and running AI agents that automate browser-based UI workflows, billed per agent-hour of active work.

Amazon QuickAgent platform

AWS's subscription AI work assistant combining chat-based research, business-intelligence dashboards and workflow automation, positioned as the successor to Amazon Q Business.

Developer tool

Amazon Q DeveloperDeveloper tool

An AWS coding assistant that generates, reviews, tests and autonomously modifies code inside IDEs and the CLI.

KiroDeveloper tool

Agentic AI development platform (IDE, CLI, web, mobile) that turns prompts into executable specs, validates code with property-based testing and runs parallel agents across large codebases.

Platform

AWS TransformPlatform

Agentic-AI enterprise IT transformation workbench that accelerates cloud migration, application modernization (mainframe, Windows, custom code) and continuous tech-debt reduction.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCorePlatform

Production AI-agent operational platform (framework- and model-agnostic) providing security controls, tool integration, debugging and evaluation for deployed agents.

Amazon Connect CustomerPlatform

Cloud contact-centre service, formerly simply 'Amazon Connect', now positioned as an agentic-AI customer-experience solution: AI agents and intelligent routing across voice, chat, email, SMS, web and WhatsApp, designed on a no-code canvas, with real-time performance tracking for agents and supervisors.

Amazon SageMaker AIPlatform

AWS's unified platform for building, training and deploying machine learning and generative AI models.

Data service

Amazon KendraData service

A managed AWS enterprise search service that answers natural-language queries and powers retrieval-augmented generation over indexed content.

Model API

Amazon BedrockModel API

AWS service that serves models from several providers behind one API, with tooling for agents and evaluation.