Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang mentioned on Wednesday {that a} design flaw with its newest Blackwell AI chips, which impacted manufacturing, has been mounted with the assistance of longtime Taiwanese manufacturing companion TSMC.
Nvidia unveiled Blackwell chips in March and had earlier mentioned they might ship within the second quarter however have been delayed, probably affecting prospects resembling Meta Platforms, Google and Microsoft.
“We had a design flaw in Blackwell,” Huang mentioned. “It was useful, however the design flaw triggered the yield to be low. It was 100% Nvidia’s fault.”
In response to media stories, the delay in manufacturing had triggered tensions between Nvidia and TSMC however Huang dismissed that as “pretend information”.
“To be able to make a Blackwell pc work, seven various kinds of chips have been designed from scratch and needed to be ramped into manufacturing on the similar time,” he mentioned. “What TSMC did was to assist us get well from that yield issue and resume the manufacturing of Blackwell at an unimaginable tempo.”
Nvidia’s Blackwell chips take two squares of silicon the scale of the corporate’s earlier providing and binds them collectively right into a single element that’s 30 occasions quicker at duties like serving up solutions from chatbots.
Fourth quarter
At a current Goldman Sachs convention, the CEO mentioned the chips would now ship within the fourth quarter.
Huang was in Denmark on Wednesday to launch a brand new supercomputer named Gefion, which boasts 1 528 graphic processing models and was in-built partnership with Novo Nordisk Basis, Denmark’s Export and Funding Fund. — Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Supantha Mukherjee, (c) 2024 Reuters
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