According to people familiar with the matter, Amazon is planning to sell Nvidia's high-end chips worth about 8 billion US dollars to external investors through a newly established special carrier to optimize its balance sheet. The company has been in talks with investors in recent weeks to assess market intentions for the deal. According to the plan, Amazon will peel off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips deployed in data centers across the US and transfer them to a special purpose carrier. Amazon then leases back these high-end artificial intelligence chips from this special purpose carrier, and the carrier will introduce external investors through debt issuance. By transferring this batch of high-value semiconductor assets to investors, Amazon can shift to a more asset-light operating model on its balance sheet. Amazon declined to comment.

According to people familiar with the matter, Amazon is planning to sell Nvidia's high-end chips worth about 8 billion US dollars to external investors through a newly established special carrier to optimize its balance sheet. The company has been in talks with investors in recent weeks to assess market intentions for the deal. According to the plan, Amazon will peel off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips deployed in data centers across the US and transfer them to a special purpose carrier. Amazon then leases back these high-end artificial intelligence chips from this special purpose carrier, and the carrier will introduce external investors through debt issuance. By transferring this batch of high-value semiconductor assets to investors, Amazon can shift to a more asset-light operating model on its balance sheet. Amazon declined to comment.