The Hot Take: I'm glad, but will be actually be able to afford or get any in our hands? Also what games are we going to need this for, as game releases have definitely stagnated along with the market.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 60 Series GPUs will be powered by the Rubin architecture, which exists only for AI and data center use thus far. The Rubin CPX, for example, is built around NVIDIA's GR212 chips, but new information shared with YouTuber RedGamingTech claims the RTX 60 Series chips will be the GR202 (RTX 6090), GR203 (RTX 6080), and GR205
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The Hot Take: We need more competition, AMD seems to be very quiet lately and might come out of no where with a beast but they haven't yet. So intel coming back in even to do an Ai bubble grab it still helps us all. Especially when that bubble pops.
Intel's Arc Pro B70 is designed to offer accessible local inference for AI users, delivering more memory at half the price of the competition. Intel Arc Pro B70 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell: 32 GB vs 24 GB, $949 vs $1800, More AI Context, 2x Tokens Per Dollar So we talked about the unveiling of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in our other post, where we highlighted the specifications, availability, and prices of the product. The B70 is going to be the flagship Pro & AI product from Intel within its Arc Pro stack, and they have [âŚ]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-pro-b70-outclasses-nvidia-rtx-pro-4000-in-ai-at-half-the-cost/
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The Hot Take: Uh oh, Ai king looks to be in trouble.
U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.
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The Hot Take: Nvidia starting to feel the heat of competition and see those $ evaporate as they try other vendors.
Nvidia is preparing to launch a new chip designed to speed up AI responses, breaking with its long-running habit of flogging the same processor for every job.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is expected to unveil a chip focused on âinferenceâ, meaning running models rather than training them.
According to people familiar with the plans for GTC next week, the chip is the first new product to emerge from Decemberâs $20bn deal to hire the founders of Groq, a start-up building âlanguage processing unitsâ tuned for high-speed answers to complex AI queries.
Three months after that deal, Nvidia is expected to debut a Groq-based LPU to sit alongside its forthcoming flagship Vera Rubin graphics processing unit. It is part of a product family meant to head off challengers and meet new kinds of AI applications.
The move lands as the worldâs most valuable company gets grief from start-ups and customers, such as Google, all busy cooking up their own AI chips. This week, Meta announced a new family of four inference-focused processors.
One Silicon Valley venture investor said: âWe are entering an interesting phase that is not âNvidia dominantâ,â
For the past three years, Nvidiaâs $4.5tn market capitalisation has been built on its GPUs, which have become the backbone of generative AI. They train models such as the ones behind OpenAIâs ChatGPT.
Huang has insisted that a single system can handle training and then run the chatbots and coding tools built on top. Big Tech has spent hundreds of billions deploying these boxes while funding their own specialised silicon.
But the growing sophistication of AI tools, including âagenticâ coding systems, is pushing Huang to ditch the mantra that one GPU fits every workload.
The Groq deal was worth about $20bn, according to people familiar with the transaction, making it one of the biggest deals in Nvidiaâs 33-year history. It includes licensing and the hiring of key talent, including Groq founder and former Google chip executive Jonathan Ross.
Groq, which had been working with Samsung to manufacture its products, previously bragged that its LPUs were faster and more efficient than Nvidiaâs GPUs for inference. Nvidia clearly listened.
Nvidiaâs flagship Blackwell and Rubin systems lean on high-bandwidth memory to cope with the massive data loads that AI models fling around. But HBM is expensive and in increasingly short supply as SK Hynix and Micron struggle to keep up with demand.
The Groq-style chip will use SRam rather than the dynamic Ram used for HBM, according to people familiar with Nvidiaâs plans, because SRam is more available and better suited to speeding up AI âreasoningâ tasks.
Bank of America reckons that by 2030, inference will account for 75 per cent of AI data centre spending, up from about 50 per cent last year, and it expects a âbroadened AI portfolioâ at GTC.
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The Hot Take: What happens when you have a dual-opoly between 3 major chip makers.
It doesnât sound like Crimson Desert, the recently released prequel to Black Desert Online, will support Intel Arc GPUs anytime soon, if at all. On the gameâs FAQ page, its developer Pearl Abyss advised players expecting Arc support to apply for a refund. âIf you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased for available options,â the company wrote. Apparently, though, itâs not from lack of guidance from Intel. The chipmaker told Wccftech that it reached out to Pearl Abyss âmany timesâ over the past several years. The Intel spokesperson said that the company has tried to help the developer âtest, validate, and optimize support for Intel graphicsâ for years. Intel also tried to provide the developer âearly hardware, drivers, and engineering resourcesâ across several generations of GPUs, âincluding Alchemist, Battlemage, Meteor Lake, and Lunar Lake.â The chipmaker said itâs âhugely disappointed that players using Intel graphics hardwareâ canât play the game, but that it remains âready to assist Pearl Abyssâ however it can. It also advised players to reach out directly to the developer for âdetails on the choice not to enable Intel support at launch.âPearl Abyss, of course, doesnât have the obligation to tweak the game so that it runs on PCs with Intel Arc GPUs. The good news is that since the title came out just a few days ago, it will still be easy to get a refund. Steam, where Crimson Desert is now one of the top-selling games, issues refunds within two weeks of purchase. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/intel-says-crimson-desert-devs-ignored-offers-of-help-to-support-arc-gpus-155514896.html?src=rss
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