US government approves the sale of H200 chips to China
… Both countries have banned the product at different times, with the US wanting America to be dominant in the AI race and China wanting its AI to be less reliant on foreign goods. …
… Both countries have banned the product at different times, with the US wanting America to be dominant in the AI race and China wanting its AI to be less reliant on foreign goods. …
… Marketed as AI accelerators, the previous GPUs looked good on paper and were apparently being sold at an enticing price, but Nvidia's dominance of the AI training market with its Hopper and Blackwell chips led to somewhat underwhelming sales of Gaudi. …
… Just last month, Huang bemoaned this market drop and argued the US should export AI "like crazy" to China. It's naturally within the interest of Nvidia to sell its AI tech to whoever will take it, as it owes the growth of AI for it becoming the world's first $5 trillion company , after all. …
… However, those 'free' tiers of AI aren't actually free. AI uses and inflates the price of technology that already exists. It's also subsidised by higher paid tiers, funny money inflating a ballooned market , and of course and apologies for getting a little technical here a metric s ton of energy . …
… Ignoring the environmental costs of AI, the effect on the personal PC market, and even the Microsoft co-authored paper that suggested regular generative AI use leaves users with a " diminished skill for independent problem-solving ", I simply don't like the privacy implications of leaving all your … …
… AMD CEO Lisa Su later added during the same call, "We're making very good progress in the commercial PC arena with our AI PCs. We did see desktops a little bit softer just given desktop is a more consumer-focused market. …
… Historically, both AMD and its main rival in the PC graphics market, Nvidia , have released new GPU families on a two-year cadence. …
… That's roughly in line with OpenAI's own research into the impact of AI in the jobs market PDF warning , though less than its first predictions on the matter two years ago . …
… NVIDIA is uniquely positioned at the center of this transformation as the only platform that runs in every cloud, powers every frontier and open source model, and scales everywhere AI is produced—from hyperscale data centers to the edge.” With all of that in mind, it's not hard to understand Nvidia… …
… Storage is hard to come by at reasonable prices nowadays, and that's all because of AI. The memory crisis is largely caused by AI data centers sapping up all the modules to train new models, and it's not helped by the fact that there are multiple competing AI companies. …