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Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states to secure the hardware to make sure they win AI supremacy.
Correction: The latest available Nvidia chip is the Hopper H100 GPU, which has 80 billion transistors. Since the first commercially available chip had four transistors, the Hopper actually has 20 billion times that number. Nvidia recently announced the Blackwell, which boasts 208 billion transistors - but it won’t ship until later this year.
To make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips
Gordon Moore, the Intel co-founder behind Moore's Law, passed away in March of 2023
Nvidia's GPUs are in high demand - and the company is using AI to accelerate chip production
