Microsoft is planning to announce its custom AI chips, codenamed Athena, during its annual Ignite conference in November.
The custom chips are designed to compete with NVIDIA's dominance in the AI accelerator market.
Microsoft aims to match or surpass the performance of NVIDIA's offerings while reducing the cost of AI infrastructure.
The high cost of NVIDIA's GPUs, such as the H100, can reach up to $30,000, making it expensive to build data centers filled with these GPUs.
By developing its own chips, Microsoft hopes to decrease its dependence on NVIDIA for AI servers.
Source : https://www.techpowerup.com/314508/microsoft-to-unveil-custom-ai-chips-to-fight-nvidias-monopoly
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