The lead mechanical thermal engineer for the custom silicon server housing Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Trainium chip has moved to OpenAI.
Kenny Huynh was in charge of custom die package, card, server, rack mechanical, and thermals for AWS' Trainium 1 and 2 servers.
During his five-and-a-half-year stint at the cloud giant, Huynh also worked on AWS' custom Nvidia platforms for H100, GH200, and GB200. He has a number of patents, including for processor heat exchangers and cable guides.
Huynh joins a growing team at OpenAI focused on building out the company's own infrastructure, as it expands beyond Microsoft Azure with Stargate.
In late 2023, the company appointed former Google TPU lead Richard Ho as its head of hardware, with an inference chip project believed to be underway with TSMC and Broadcom.
OpenAI is also working with partners, including Nvidia, on potential custom servers for training and inference.
