Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. The politically timed move comes amid rising US-China tensions and the Trump administration’s push for domestic manufacturing. Nvidia’s announcement comes less than two… Read More »
A large investment The path to creating a custom AI chip requires substantial resources. Industry experts told Reuters that designing a single version of such a processor could cost as much as $500 million, with additional expenses for developing supporting software and hardware potentially doubling that amount. The current OpenAI chip project, led by former… Read More »
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. AI-accelerating GPU… Read More »
Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. reader comments 27 On Tuesday, Intel revealed a new AI accelerator chip called Gaudi 3 at its Vision 2024 event in Phoenix. With strong claimed performance while running large language models (like those that power ChatGPT), the company has positioned Gaudi 3 as… Read More »
Enlarge / OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman walks on the House side of the US Capitol on January 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Getty Images reader comments 98 On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise as much… Read More »
reader comments 151 with In late 2020, Huawei was fighting for its survival as a mobile phone maker. A few months earlier, the Trump administration had hit the Chinese company with crippling sanctions, cutting it off from global semiconductor supply chains. The sanctions prevented anyone without a permit from making the chips Huawei designed, and… Read More »
Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its silicon substrate. Microsoft | Benj Edwards reader comments 20 with On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips… Read More »
Enlarge / Eight Nvidia H200 GPUs covered with a fanciful blue explosion that figuratively represents raw compute power bursting forth in a glowing flurry. Nvidia | Benj Edwards reader comments 47 with On Monday, Nvidia announced the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, which utilizes the Hopper architecture to accelerate AI applications. It’s a follow-up of… Read More »
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in effect sooner than expected, according to a report from Reuters. The curbs were… Read More »
OpenAI / Benj Edwards reader comments 44 with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own AI accelerator chips, according to Reuters. Citing anonymous sources, the Reuters report indicates that OpenAI is considering the option due to a shortage of specialized AI GPU chips… Read More »