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Intel Foundry, the company's chip manufacturing business, had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023 and won’t break even until at least 2027, says CEO.
More happened at the Nvidia GTC conference than the Blackwell announcement, including the launch of two new high-speed network platforms.
The facility, with sites in the US and South Korea, will develop chips to support the processing demands of ‘artificial general intelligence,’ which refers to AI that can perform as well as or better than humans.
The DGX SuperPOD features eight or more DGX GB200 systems and can scale to tens of thousands of Nvidia Superchips.
The next-gen Blackwell architecture will offer a 4x performance boost over the current Hopper lineup, Nvidia claims.
The partnership will give joint customers a CPU platform on which to run computationally intensive AI workloads.
If the U.S. Department of Defense pulls the $2.5 billion grant, it shouldn’t have a major effect on Intel, analysts note.
Once optional, GPUs are becoming mandatory in servers. Companies are prioritizing investment in highly configured server clusters for AI, research firm Omdia reports.
Meanwhile, in response to chip availability constraints, several Chinese city governments have committed to offering “computing vouchers” to subsidize AI startups grappling with escalating data center costs.
Supermicro and Lenovo are expanding their AI hardware offerings, Intel is previewing chips designed for 5G and AI workloads, and Dell is embracing telecom.
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