… The fact that the two chipsets are in near-parity right now speaks volumes as to the superiority of Apple's chip design. Of course, as stated earlier, the M3 Max is likely seeing some improvements from Apple's optimized MacBook Pro ecosystem vs. a largely unoptimized N1x chipset. …
… Related Story Elon Musk Just Visited Intel’s Oregon Fab, The Same Fab Producing Cutting-Edge Panther Lake & Next-Gen Chips on 18A Apple, with either the M5 Ultra or the M6 Ultra chip, is likely to compete for the same 3D packaging resources at TSMC as the ones used by NVIDIA Apple has been using In… …
… Gelsinger has also voiced opposition to NVIDIA's chips being an expensive venture for inference workloads, hence the enmity exists. However, it is still great to see NVIDIA's efforts to bring manufacturing to the US being recognized all across the board, since it is a critical development. …
… Related Story TSMC To Shrug Off Apple’s Pivot To Intel Fabs For The M7 And A21 Chips, As Bernstein Calls The Deal’s 18A-P Node Volumes Too “Small” To Matter At the end of the day, Intel existing is the single most important piece of insurance for an Apple, for an AMD, for an Nvidia, for a Qualcomm … …
… Zuhair's expertise lies in deconstructing complex topics such as fabrication nodes e.g., 2nm process , the economic impact of policies like the CHIPS Act, and the strategic development of AI infrastructure from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. …
The quantum computing narrative is definitely ramping up, and in the midst of it, IonQ's CEO claims that the firm's quantum chips will 'wipe out' the competition from NVIDIA and AMD. IonQ Plans To Scale Up Quantum Chips To 10,000 Qubits By 2027, But Could They Replace Traditional GPUs? …
… According to Morgan Stanley's estimates, the performance per Watt of the NVIDIA chips is "2x-8x ahead of custom ASICs." NVIDIA's Rubin Chips Significantly Outperform Amazon & Google's Custom AI Chips, Says Morgan Stanley The investment bank's slide that accompanies its report computes the TFLOPs pe… …
… This also opens up opportunities for the likes of Intel and Samsung Foundry, and while the latter has been successful in attracting attention from NVIDIA, Tesla, and Apple, Intel still has a long way to go. …
… While the chips were available for sale, their listings were on a third-party storefront, which implies that NVIDIA is not directly involved in their sales. Instead, it is likely that the chips would make their way into China through unofficial sources. …
… There are currently three generations of LPU chips, with the latest, the third generation, announced at NVIDIA's GTC conference earlier this year. The third generation chip is dubbed the NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX and it acts as the inference accelerator for NVIDIA's latest Rubin AI chips. …