A $40,000 Nvidia chip has become the world's most sought-after hardware (qz.com)

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A $40,000 Nvidia chip has become the world's most sought-after hardware::Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia's H100 chips

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[-] SomeTeaMonster@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Damn, that's almost as expensive as a 4090.

[-] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

Didn't Amazon and Google want to build their own AI accelerators to avoid such a dependency? What happened to that?

[-] BobKerman3999@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago

....and Microsoft... I guess the software lock in worked

[-] MakeItCount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google has been building its own TPU since 2016

The lastest version TPUv4 has been released in 2021 with the v5 supposedly already in use internally since this year

EDIT : TPUv5 availability just annonced

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023

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