Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer
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- 23 Mar 2022
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Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) on Tuesday announced new chips and technologies that it said will boost the computing speed of increasingly complicated artificial intelligence algorithms, stepping up competition against rival chipmakers vying for lucrative data center business.
The company provided details of new graphic chips (GPU) that will be at the core of AI infrastructure, releasing the H100 chip and a new processor chip called the Grace CPU Superchip, based on British chip firm Arm Ltd's technology. It's the first Arm-based chip from Nvidia to be unveiled since its deal to buy Arm fell apart last month.
Nvidia also announced its new supercomputer "Eos", which it said will be the world's fastest AI system when it begins operation later this year.
"Data centers are becoming AI factories - processing and refining mountains of data to produce intelligence," said Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at Nvidia's AI developer conference online, calling the H100 chip the "engine" of AI infrastructure.
Nvidia said the new technologies together will help reduce computing times from weeks to days for some work involving training AI models.
Companies have been using AI and machine learning for a multitude of things - from making recommendations for the next video to watch on TVs and cell phones - to new drug discovery.
"It's clear from the latest announcements that Nvidia is becoming a more significant threat to Intel and AMD in the data center and cloud computing markets," said Bob O'Donnell chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research.
Intel Corp(INTC.O)has been the biggest maker of central processors for data centers, but has seen competition for the lucrative fast growing space rise.
However, Vlad Galabov, head of the cloud and data center research practice at research firm Omdia said he has concerns about the H100 chip's power consumption and said that it might inhibit the processor's broad market appeal. Read More…
