Microsoft to Unveil Custom AI Chips to Fight Nvidia’s Monopoly
Microsoft to Unveil Custom AI Chips to Fight Nvidia’s Monopoly

Microsoft to Unveil Custom AI Chips to Fight Nvidia’s Monopoly

  • 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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