AXIOS March 19, 2024
Aiming to keep riding an AI-driven wave of demand, Nvidia is using its GTC developer conference this week to tout a more powerful family of chips along with a host of industry partnerships.
Why it matters: Nvidia has been the biggest beneficiary of the generative AI boom among chipmakers, but rivals are eager to get in on the action.
Driving the news: Nvidia unveiled its new Blackwell family of processors, due out later this year. Blackwell-architecture chips, which contain more than 200 billion transistors, are the successor to the company’s current Hopper processors, which have been in short supply.
- “Hopper is fantastic, but we need bigger GPUs,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, per CNBC. Nvidia said Blackwell processors can...