On March 18th, at a developer event, Nvidia announced a series of new products aimed at strengthening its position in the artificial intelligence market.
Here, the company introduced its new generation of AI chips, Blackwell, which are considered to be many times more powerful than the H100 – the company's most powerful AI chip currently available. With an upgrade to 20 petaflops compared to 4 petaflops on the H100, it allows AI businesses to train larger and more complex models.
Specifically, the GB200 boasts a computing power of 20 petaflops, five times greater than the 4 petaflops of the H100 – a chip generation that consistently sold out in 2023. This additional processing power will enable AI companies to train larger and more complex models.
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Nvidia said that its major customers, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle, are expected to use the new generation of chips in their cloud computing and AI services.
Nvidia is one of the companies that has benefited greatly from the tech industry's recent obsession with large-scale artificial intelligence models, developed on the company's expensive server graphics processors. The chip giant has become a $2 trillion company thanks to supplying these crucial chips used to train complex AI models.
According to Wall Street's forecast, Nvidia's earnings per share were expected to reach $4.64; however, the company's latest report shows the actual figure was $5.16. Compared to Wall Street's projected revenue of $20.62 billion, Nvidia achieved revenue of $22.10 billion.
Nvidia's total revenue increased 265% year-on-year thanks to strong sales of AI chips for servers, particularly the H100 series. This is the most powerful processor Nvidia has ever built based on the Hopper architecture, and one of the most highly regarded generations of chips in the technology world, priced at $30,000-$40,000 per chip.
Nvidia has yet to announce the price of the new GB200 or the systems containing it. It is known that Nvidia's Hopper-based H100 is priced between $25,000 and $40,000 per unit, and the entire system is estimated to cost up to $200,000, according to analysts.
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