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The reports about an insufficient supply of compute GPUs used for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) servers became common in recent months as demand for GPUs to power generative AI applications exploded. TSMC admits that the biggest compute GPU supply bottleneck is its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging capacity, as it is used by virtually everyone in the AI and HPC business. The company is expanding CoWoS capacity but believes that its shortage will persist for 1.5 years. "It is not the shortage of AI chips," said Mark Liu, the chairman of TSMC, in a conversation with Nikkei. "It is the shortage of our CoWoS capacity. […] Currently, we cannot fulfill 100% of our customers' needs, but we try to support about 80%. We think...
MSI Goes Compact with New GeForce RTX 40-Series Gaming Slim Cards
Modern graphics cards are notorious for their massive cooling systems and dimensions that are hard to fit into mainstream PC chassis and almost impossible to fit into compact PC...
16 by Anton Shilov on 8/30/2023NVIDIA Reports Q2 FY2024 Earnings: $13B Revenue Blows Past Records On Absurd Data Center Demand
NVIDIA this afternoon has announced their results for the second quarter of their 2024 fiscal year, delivering what’s arguably the most anticipated earnings report of the season. Riding high...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2023NVIDIA Completes ProViz Ada Lovelace Lineup with Three New Graphics Cards
When NVIDIA began to roll out their Ada Lovelace architecture to the workstation market, the company introduced its new flagship RTX 6000 Ada graphics card meant to offer the...
2 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2023NVIDIA Unveils Updated GH200 'Grace Hopper' Superchip with HBM3e Memory, Shipping in Q2'2024
At SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, NVIDIA unveiled a new variant of their GH200' superchip,' which is set to be the world's first GPU chip to be equipped with HBM3e...
4 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/8/2023Cloud Provider Gets $2.3 Billion Debt Using NVIDIA's H100 as Collateral
CoreWeave, an NVIDIA-backed cloud service provider specializing in GPU-accelerated services, has secured a debt facility worth $2.3 billion using NVIDIA's H100-based hardware as collateral. The company intends to use...
18 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2023Microsoft to Bring Game Pass Games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now
Microsoft on Sunday announced plans to bring select PC Game Pass games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud streaming service later in 2023. The move will allow gamers to enjoy...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/12/2023Asus Details ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090: Liquid Cooling Meets Liquid Metal
Asus has introduced a new flagship RTX 4090 graphics card that uses an all-in-one liquid cooling system combined with liquid metal thermal interface. Dubbed the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX...
6 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2023NVIDIA: Grace Hopper Has Entered Full Production & Announcing DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer
Teeing off an AI-heavy slate of announcements for NVIDIA, the company has confirmed that their Grace Hopper “superchip” has entered full production. The combination of a Grace CPU and...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2023NVIDIA Reports Q1 FY2024 Earnings: Bigger Things to Come as NV Approaches $1T Market Cap
Closing out the most recent earnings season for the PC industry is, as always, NVIDIA. The company’s unusual, nearly year-ahead fiscal calendar means that they get the benefit of...
23 by Ryan Smith on 5/25/2023Asus Unveils Two Slimmer GeForce RTX 4090 Video Cards: ROG Strix LC and TUF OG
Asus has expanded the company's GeForce RTX 40-series product portfolio with two new RTX 4090 graphics cards. The ROG Strix LC GeForce RTX 4090 and TUF Gaming GeForce RTX...
6 by Zhiye Liu on 5/12/2023NVIDIA Launches Diablo IV Bundle for GeForce RTX 40 Video Cards
NVIDIA is launching a new game bundle for its latest generaiton GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards and OEM systems. This time, NVIDIA has teamed up with Activision Blizzard to...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/9/2023SK hynix Now Sampling 24GB HBM3 Stacks, Preparing for Mass Production
When SK hynix initially announced its HBM3 memory portfolio in late 2021, the company said it was developing both 8-Hi 16GB memory stacks as well as even more technically...
1 by Anton Shilov on 4/21/2023NVIDIA's cuLitho to Speed Up Computational Lithography for 2nm and Beyond
Production of chips using leading-edge process technologies requires more compute power than ever. To address requirements of 2nm nodes and beyond, NVIDIA is rolling out its cuLitho software library...
31 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2023NVIDIA Unveils Ada Lovelace RTX Workstation GPUs for Laptops; Desktop RTX 4000 SFF
Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack. NVIDIA’s laptop lineup...
15 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023NVIDIA Announces H100 NVL - Max Memory Server Card for Large Language Models
While this year’s Spring GTC event doesn’t feature any new GPUs or GPU architectures from NVIDIA, the company is still in the process of rolling out new products based...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023The NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:00am PT/15:00 UTC)
Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023NVIDIA Bundles Redfall Bite Back Edition With GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs
NVIDIA has launched a new RTX game bundle for the chipmaker's latest generation GeForce RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace) video cards. For their latest promotional offer, the company has...
4 by Zhiye Liu on 3/16/2023Lenovo Teams Up with Aston Martin for New ThinkStations: Up to 120 Cores, 4 Graphics Cards
Lenovo has introduced its all-new ThinkStation machines designed for performance-hungry professionals. The new ThinkStation P-series lineup consists of four machines based on up to two Intel Sapphire Rapids processors...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/9/2023Cadence Delivers Technical Details on GDDR7: 36 Gbps with PAM3 Encoding
When Samsung teased the ongoing development of GDDR7 memory last October, the company did not disclose any other technical details of the incoming specification. But Cadence recently introduced the...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2023