Microsoft Azure's official X account posted last night to "show off" its new gear: the company has gotten a ride on thesimultaneouslyNvidia GB200 Superchipof AI server (computer)The company became the first global cloud service provider to adopt the Blackwell architecture.
In March, NVIDIA announced its most powerful AI-accelerated card, the GB200, at the GTC 2024 developer conference, which is based on the next-generation AI graphics processor architecture, Blackwell, and etched using TSMC's 4-nanometer (4NP) process.Blackwell's AI performance is up to 20 petaflops, compared to 4 petaflops for the H100.NVIDIA says the extra processing power will allow AI companies to train larger, more complex models.
In May, Barron's senior writer @firstadopter cited HSBC analysts who argued that an NVIDIA GB200 superchip (CPU + GPU)It's priced at up to $70,000(Currently about RMB 494,000).
On October 8 (yesterday), Foxconn Senior Vice President Benjamin Ting announced at the 2024 Hon Hai Technology Day thatFoxconn plans to build world's largest NVIDIA GB200 chip manufacturing plant in Mexico, though he did not disclose exactly where the facility would be built.