Nvidia Looks to Extend AI Dominance With New Blackwell Chips

March 19, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang showed off new chips aimed at extending his company’s dominance of artificial intelligence computing, a position that’s already made it the world’s third-most-valuable business.

A new processor design called Blackwell is multiple times faster at handling the models that underpin AI, the company said at its GTC conference on Monday in San Jose, California. That includes the process of developing the technology — a stage known as training – and the running of it, which is called inference.

Jensen Huang displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose, California, on Monday.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

The Blackwell chips, which are made up of 208 billion transistors, will be the ...

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