… The 2025 products turned out to be the “Blackwell” GPUs that were detailed by Huang at the Computex conference in June 2024 in the new-style roadmap we by now have seen a bunch of times with additions. …
… These peak numbers for Maverick-2 are not very high compared to recent GPUs. …
… To etch a new model on an HC inference engine involves changing a two layers of metal in the HC chip design, not a complete scrapping of it. …
… The chart above is unequivocal in that Eridu, the company, wants to have a new switch ASIC architecture and a new switch system design that allows for thousands of GPUs and XPUs to be interconnected in a scale up network and for millions of these compute engines to be interconnected in the millions… …
… And, there is a new market emerging for CPUs, driven by the specific computing needs of agentic AI, that will, within the next few years, come to dominate the installed base of servers even if it does not represent the lion’s shares of revenues as do AI training systems by virtue of those very expe… …
… This is 100 petaflops.” Right now, Nvidia is seeing only an acceleration in demand for its AI chips, which isn’t surprising given the rapid enterprise adoption of AI, he said. Sales of Grace Blackwell GPUs illustrate the future trends. …
… The prior “Hopper” GPUs we certified at eight GPUs sharing memory with 256 possible using a tiered NVSwitch network – an approach that was talked about by Big Green but never commercialized. …
… The company started out in 1993 as a GPU maker, and for more than a decade has led the charge to the top of the AI heap with those chips firmly in hand Nvidia’s CUDA computing platform and programming model opened the door for the GPUs to move beyond its graphics rendering roots and into general-pu… …
… While the new “Sunfish” TPU 8t for training and recommendation engines made with the help of Broadcom and shown on the left above and the new “Zebrafish” TPU 8i for inference and reasoning made with MediaTek and shown on the right are distinct, they share many components in their architecture. …
Compute Oracle First In Line For AMD “Altair” MI450 GPUs, “Helios” Racks It is Oracle OpenWorld CloudWorld AI World this week, so we expect a lot of AI infrastructure announcements from Big Red, with AI being the biggest new workload to hit the enterprise in decades. …