New Nvidia Blackwell chips will ship later this year
The next generation of AI will be powered by Nvidia hardware, the company has declared after it revealed its next generation of GPUs.
Company CEO Jensen Huang took the wraps off the new Blackwell chips at Nvidia GTC 2024 today, promising a major step forward in terms of AI power and efficiency.
The first Blackwell “superchip”, the GB200, is set to ship later this year, with the ability to scale up from a single rack all the way to an entire data center, as Nvidia looks to push on with its leadership in the AI race.Nvidia Blackwell
Representing a significant step forward for the company’s hardware from its predecessor, Hopper, Huang noted that Blackwell contains 208 billion transistors (up from 80 billion in Hopper) across its two GPU dies, which are connected by 10 TB/second chip-to-chip link into a single, unified GPU.
