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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to attend SEMICON Taiwan 2024: meet with SK hynix and TSMC execs

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 23, 2024 10:44 AM CDT

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will be flying over to Taiwan to attend SEMICON Taiwan 2024, where he will meet with SK hynix and TSMC executives according to local media.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to attend SEMICON Taiwan 2024: meet with SK hynix and TSMC execs

Jensen will reportedly meet with SK hynix's president at SEMICON, where the two will provide the world with an update on their progress, as well as working with TSMC on next-generation HBM memory chips like HBM4.

NVIDIA, TSMC and SK hynix recently formed a "triangular alliance" for a collaborative effort to make next-gen AI GPUs and next-gen HBM memory. SEMICON Taiwan 2024 is a big event for the semiconductor industry, and with the triangular alliance there, we should expect some updates to GPU and HBM roadmaps, and more.

Continue reading: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to attend SEMICON Taiwan 2024: meet with SK hynix and TSMC execs (full post)

SK Telecom to build 'GPU farm' with thousands of NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, rented for AI workloads

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 22, 2024 11:11 PM CDT

South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom has announced its partnering with US-based GPU cloud startup Lambda on a new GPU farm using NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs.

SK Telecom to build 'GPU farm' with thousands of NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, rented for AI workloads

The GPU farm filled with NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs will be owned by Lambda, and installed into the SK Broadband data center in Gasan-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, by December this year. The new partnership on the GPU farm in South Korea is part of SKT's broader plan to expand its AI data center business reports Business Korea.

SKT plans to scale the number of AI GPUs to thousands in the next 3 years, with SK Broadband being a subsidiary of SKT, and will play a "crucial role" in this venture by providing optimized equipment management services to ensure the stable operation of the GPU servers.

Continue reading: SK Telecom to build 'GPU farm' with thousands of NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, rented for AI workloads (full post)

Analyst: NVIDIA has 'effectively canceled' B100 AI GPU over design flaw: B200A to replace it

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 22, 2024 7:15 PM CDT

NVIDIA's upcoming earnings report is ruffling some feathers already, one analyst saying Blackwell AI GPUs design flaws are seeing the B100 AI GPU "effectively canceled".

Analyst: NVIDIA has 'effectively canceled' B100 AI GPU over design flaw: B200A to replace it

The design flaws plaguing NVIDIA's new Blackwell AI GPUs hit headlines a couple of weeks ago, where we began hearing about design flaws that analyst firm KeyBanc says NVIDIA will need to "respin" the Blackwell tile that will cause a 3-month delay on shipments.

KeyBanc explained: "Given the Blackwell delay, we believe NVIDIA will prioritize the ramp of B200 for hyperscalers and has effectively canceled B100, which will be replaced with a lower cost/performance GPU (B200A) targeted at enterprise customers".

Continue reading: Analyst: NVIDIA has 'effectively canceled' B100 AI GPU over design flaw: B200A to replace it (full post)

SK hynix plans to develop new memory product with 30x the performance of HBM memory chips

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 19, 2024 11:58 PM CDT

SK hynix Vice President Ryu Seong-su has announced the South Korean AI memory leader is working on developing a product with 20-30x the performance of current-gen HBM memory.

SK hynix plans to develop new memory product with 30x the performance of HBM memory chips

During the recent "SK Icheon Forum 2024" event held at the Grand Walkerhill in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, South Korea, the SK hynix VP said: "We aim to develop products with 20 to 30 times the performance of current HBM, focusing on introducing differentiated products".

Ryu emphasized SK hynix's focus on responding to the mass market, with AI memory solutions (HBM) through execution capabilities, reports Business Korea. This strategy by SK hynix has been crucial in the demand of high-performance memory to grow, driven by the insatiable demand for AI GPU hardware.

Continue reading: SK hynix plans to develop new memory product with 30x the performance of HBM memory chips (full post)

Samsung's next-gen HBM4 to enter mass production by the end of 2025, ready for next-gen AI GPUs

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 19, 2024 7:39 PM CDT

Samsung is rumored to tape-out its next-generation HBM4 memory in Q4 2024, with mass production of HBM4 expected by the end of 2025.

Samsung's next-gen HBM4 to enter mass production by the end of 2025, ready for next-gen AI GPUs

The AI industry is fueling the growth of HBM memory, with HBM makers SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron pumping out as much as it can, and it hasn't been enough. SK hynix is sold out of all of its HBM3 and HBM3E for both 2024 and 2025, and with HBM4 on the horizon, all things are leading to who can be the biggest HBM4 supplier to AI GPU companies like NVIDIA and AMD.

NVIDIA's next-generation Rubin R100 AI GPU uses HBM4 memory, so SK hynix and Samsung are both doing everything they can (spending many tens of billions of dollars, setting up and expanding semiconductor fabs in South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States) to pump more HBM memory (HBM3, HBM3E, HBM4, and even HBM4E) for 2025 and beyond.

Continue reading: Samsung's next-gen HBM4 to enter mass production by the end of 2025, ready for next-gen AI GPUs (full post)

AMD acquires server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, will fight NVIDIA's AI infrastructure

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 19, 2024 6:18 AM CDT

AMD has announced it is acquiring server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, in a bid to better compete in the AI industry against juggernaut NVIDIA.

AMD acquires server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, will fight NVIDIA's AI infrastructure

The company plans to pay for 75% of the ZT Systems acquisition with cash, while the remainder will be provided in AMD stock. As of Q2 2024, AMD has $5.34 billion in cash and short-term investments at the ready, and ZT Systems is one of those investments.

ZT Systems is an artificial intelligence infrastructure group that will help AMD create a better AI infrastructure, helping get AMD's new Instinct MI300 series AI accelerators into data centers. ZT Systems was founded over 30 years ago, and is a private company that builds custom computing infrastructure for some of the world's biggest AI hyperscales.

Continue reading: AMD acquires server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, will fight NVIDIA's AI infrastructure (full post)

India's first AI chip: Bodhi 1 from Ola, next-gen Ojas, Sarv 1, and Bodhi 2 teased for 2028

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 17, 2024 11:54 PM CDT

You probably haven't heard of Ola, but they're an Indian automotive manufacturer, which has just announced they're going to design, build, and launch India's first-ever in-house AI chip by 2026 powered by the Arm architecture.

India's first AI chip: Bodhi 1 from Ola, next-gen Ojas, Sarv 1, and Bodhi 2 teased for 2028

India is now jumping into the AI semiconductor market, with its first-ever in-house AI chip aimed at self-driving vehicles of the future. AI inside of autonomous vehicles is a big business now, and will be even bigger in the future and India wants in on that market.

Ola CEO Bravish Aggrawal took the stage at an event recently, announcing multiple AI chips are coming from Ola, each specializing in their respective scenarios. Aggarwal underlined the importance of India creating AI chips in-house, instead of relying on third-party semiconductor companies like TSMC, Samsung, or Intel. The company showed off some of its Bodhi series of AI chips, including the Sarv-1-cloud-native CPUs and its new Ojas edge AI chip.

Continue reading: India's first AI chip: Bodhi 1 from Ola, next-gen Ojas, Sarv 1, and Bodhi 2 teased for 2028 (full post)

Geekbench AI 1.0 benchmark is now available: AI tests for CPUs, NPUs and GPUs

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 15, 2024 11:55 PM CDT

Geekbench AI 1.0 is here, after years of feedback and test iteration with its customers, partners, and the AI engineering community, Primate Labs is proud to announce its latest machine learning benchmark is now ready, and it has a new name: Geekbench AI. You can download Geekbench AI 1.0 here.

Geekbench AI 1.0 benchmark is now available: AI tests for CPUs, NPUs and GPUs

Geekbench AI is a new benchmarking suite with a testing methodology for machine learning, deep learning, and AI-centric workloads, all with the same cross-platform utility and real-world workload reflection that Primate Labs' benchmarking software (Geekbench, duh) is known for.

The developer explains on its website: "Measuring performance is, put simply, really hard. That's not because it's hard to run an arbitrary test, but because it's hard to determine which tests are the most important for the performance you want to measure - especially across different platforms, and particularly when everyone is doing things in subtly different ways. At Primate Labs, we build our tests to reflect the sort of use cases that developers build their applications to do through detailed and ongoing conversations with software and hardware engineers across the industry, rather than just crunching basic math for hours".

Continue reading: Geekbench AI 1.0 benchmark is now available: AI tests for CPUs, NPUs and GPUs (full post)

Japan's SoftBank kills plans for Intel to make an AI chip to compete with NVIDIA, goes to TSMC

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 15, 2024 11:33 PM CDT

SoftBank was talking with Intel about making an AI chip that would compete with NVIDIA's dominant AI GPUs, but the plan "floundered" after Intel failed to meet the requirements of Japan's SoftBank.

Japan's SoftBank kills plans for Intel to make an AI chip to compete with NVIDIA, goes to TSMC

In a new report from the Financial Times, we're hearing that negotiations to partner with Intel would've rapidly accelerated SoftBank's efforts to combine the chip design of its "crown jewel" as the FT puts it: Arm. Japan's SoftBank owns Arm Holdings, so with its Arm architecture and Intel fabbing the chip with SoftBank's production expertise of its latest acquisition -- Graphcore -- according to "people familiar with the matter".

SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son plans to dump billions of dollars into putting Japan at the center of the AI boom, where the Arm owner wants to create a rival to NVIDIA's dominant AI GPUs. Son has pitched his ideas to the usual Big Tech companies, with chip production and software through to providing power for the data centers that would be powered by its chips.

Continue reading: Japan's SoftBank kills plans for Intel to make an AI chip to compete with NVIDIA, goes to TSMC (full post)

Samsung's new 8-layer HBM3E memory chips pass NVIDIA tests, deal expected to be signed soon

Anthony Garreffa | Aug 14, 2024 11:33 PM CDT

Samsung's new 8-layer HBM3E memory has passed NVIDIA's qualification tests to be used in its AI GPUs.

Samsung's new 8-layer HBM3E memory chips pass NVIDIA tests, deal expected to be signed soon

In a new report from Reuters, the outlet says that the qualification clears a "major hurdle" for Samsung -- which is the world's largest memory manufacturer -- and has been struggling to catch up to South Korean rival, SK hynix, which has been providing its bleeding-edge HBM3E memory to NVIDIA for its AI GPUs.

Samsung still hasn't signed a supply deal for the approved 8-layer HBM3E memory chips with NVIDIA, but "will do so soon" according to Reuters' sources, who declined to be identified as the matter remains confidential. The new 8-layer HBM3E memory ships from Samsung would be supplied to NVIDIA in Q4 2024, which is not far away now.

Continue reading: Samsung's new 8-layer HBM3E memory chips pass NVIDIA tests, deal expected to be signed soon (full post)

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