Artificial intelligence technologies are taking the internet by storm. Almost every day, a company announces plans to create their own AI model or to integrate an existing chatbot like ChatGPT into their services. For now, “western brands” like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are leading the race, but Chinese companies are not far behind. Recent news shows that Chinese tech giants have ordered $5 billion worth of generative AI chips from Nvidia. Here are the details…
Chinese Tech Giants Invest $5 Billion in Nvidia AI Chips
No matter which side you’re on, one thing is clear: China is home to some of the world’s biggest tech companies. We see these brands in many parts of our lives. For example, even in my house, I have products like the Xiaomi robot vacuum and Huawei modem. Of course, some of these brands are also involved in trending areas like artificial intelligence.
China’s tech giants, including Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba, have initiated orders with Nvidia for $5 billion worth of chips to construct generative artificial intelligence systems. Some of you might wonder what Nvidia has to do with this. Even though many of us know Nvidia for its RTX series graphics cards, the company is very experienced in artificial intelligence.
They make technologies like the A800 processor that can handle AI tasks. You can see examples of this in the technology used in the GeForce RTX series cards. For example, if you download Nvidia Studio on your computer, you can get AI features like changing the background and noise cancellation.
The Chinese tech companies mentioned above have placed an order with Nvidia worth about $1 billion. They will produce and deliver about 100,000 units of Nvidia’s A800 processor by the end of the year. Also, these companies bought graphics processing units worth $4 billion, and they plan to ship these units in 2024.
Nvidia’s A800 processors are a line of professional graphics cards that were launched in November 2022. They are based on the GA100 graphics processor and are designed for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. The A800 processors offer a number of features that make them well-suited for these demanding workloads.
The A800 processors have 6912 CUDA cores, which is more than any other professional graphics card on the market. This allows them to handle complex computational tasks with ease. This processors also have 80GB of HBM2e memory, which is more than enough for even the most demanding AI applications. Moreover, the A800 have a 400GB/s interconnect, which allows them to communicate with other GPUs and CPUs quickly and efficiently.
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