Nvidia unveils latest chips, technology to speed up AI computing

By Jane Lanhee Lee and Chavi Mehta

March 22 (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp NVDA.O on Tuesday announced quite a few new chips and systems that it explained will boost the computing pace of progressively sophisticated synthetic intelligence algorithms, stepping up competitiveness versus rival chipmakers vying for valuable information middle company.

Nvidia’s graphic chips (GPU), which initially helped propel and increase the excellent of films in the gaming current market, have grow to be the dominant chips for businesses to use for AI workloads. The most current GPU, identified as the H100, can aid lessen computing situations from weeks to days for some get the job done involving instruction AI models, the firm explained.

The bulletins had been created at Nvidia’s AI developers conference on-line.

“Information facilities are turning out to be AI factories — processing and refining mountains of info to make intelligence,” reported Nvidia Main Government Officer Jensen Huang in a statement, contacting the H100 chip the “motor” of AI infrastructure.

Companies have been utilizing AI and equipment discovering for every thing from creating tips of the subsequent video to watch to new drug discovery, and the technological innovation is significantly turning out to be an essential tool for company.

The H100 chip will be manufactured on Taiwan Production Semiconductor Company’s 2330.TW cutting edge 4 nanometer method with 80 billion transistors and will be available in the 3rd quarter, Nvidia said.

The H100 will also be utilised to build Nvidia’s new “Eos” supercomputer, which Nvidia explained will be the world’s fastest AI method when it starts procedure afterwards this 12 months.

Fb mother or father Meta FB.O introduced in January that it would construct the world’s swiftest AI supercomputer this calendar year and it would execute at almost 5 exaflops. Nvidia on Tuesday stated its supercomputer will operate at in excess of 18 exaflops.

Exaflop effectiveness is the skill to perform 1 quintillion – or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 – calculations for each next.

In addition to the GPU chip, Nvidia launched a new processor chip (CPU) referred to as the Grace CPU Superchip that is dependent on Arm technologies. It is the initially new chip by Nvidia based mostly on the Arm architecture to be declared since the firm’s offer to acquire Arm Ltd fell aside final month because of to regulatory hurdles.

The Grace CPU Superchip, which will be readily available in the initial 50 percent of future 12 months, connects two CPU chips and will concentrate on AI and other tasks that call for intensive computing energy.

A lot more companies are connecting chips making use of technological know-how that enables faster knowledge circulation between them. Previously this thirty day period Apple Inc <AAPL.O> unveiled its M1 Extremely chip connecting two M1 Max chips. [nL2N2VB1DI]

Nvidia reported the two CPU chips had been connected working with its NVLink-C2C engineering, which was also unveiled on Tuesday.

Nvidia shares had been up far more than 1% in midday trade.

(Reporting By Jane Lanhee Lee, extra reporting by Joseph White Editing by Bernard Orr)

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