Jun 21, 2023

Nvidia

Cutting-edge chips

by

Alison Van Houten

Nvidia's H100 SXM.

Nvidia's H100 SXM.Courtesy of NVIDIA

Training generative AI models like ChatGPT requires thousands of the fastest graphics processing units (GPUs). With 88% of the GPU market, Nvidia’s cutting-edge chips are enabling the AI boom as its industry struggles to keep up with exploding demand. Nvidia’s flagship AI chip, the H100, has been fetching $40,000 on eBay—well over its retail price. After touching a $1 trillion market cap in May, the company announced that an even more powerful GPU-CPU combo chip, the GH200 (named after computing pioneer Grace Hopper), has entered full production. Meanwhile, Nvidia’s new supercomputer cloud service lets anyone train their own AI models for $36,999 per month.

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