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B200 Blackwell Chip
- 21 Mar 2024
- 1 min read
Nvidia (a US-based Company) has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the B200 ‘Blackwell’, which promises to revolutionise the AI market with its enhanced computational power and optimised performance.
- The B200 Blackwell chip is twice as powerful as Nvidia's current H100 'Hopper' chip for training AI models.
- Blackwell graphic processing unit (GPU) boasts 208 billion transistors, it can perform some computational tasks 30 times faster than the Hopper chip, leading to accelerated progress in AI development.
- Major tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI are expected to adopt the new chip for their cloud-computing services and AI products.
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