{"id":24704,"date":"2024-03-20T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107389533"},"modified":"2024-03-20T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:40:07","slug":"nvidias-latest-ai-chip-will-cost-more-than-30000-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/nvidias-latest-ai-chip-will-cost-more-than-30000-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia&#8217;s latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-107389421\">\n<div role=\"button\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-107389421\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000334798\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nvidias-latest-ai-chip-will-cost-more-than-30000-ceo-says.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia CEO on the next generation of semiconductors and computing\"><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Nvidia&#8217;s<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> next-generation graphics processor for artificial intelligence, called Blackwell, will cost between $30,000 and $40,000 per unit, CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer on Tuesday on &#8220;Squawk on the Street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to invent some new technology to make it possible,&#8221; Huang said, holding up a Blackwell chip. He estimated that Nvidia spent about $10 billion in research and development costs.<\/p>\n<p>The price suggests that the chip, which is likely to be in hot demand for training and deploying AI software such as ChatGPT, will be priced in a range similar to that of its predecessor, the H100, known as the Hopper, which cost between $25,000 and $40,000 per chip, according to analyst estimates. The Hopper generation, introduced in 2022, represented a significant price increase for Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips <span class=\"waslinkname\">over the previous generation<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Huang told CNBC&#8217;s Kristina Partsinevelos that the cost isn&#8217;t just about the chip but also about designing data centers and integrating into other company&#8217;s data centers.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia announces a new generation of AI chips about every two years. The latest, like Blackwell, are generally faster and more energy efficient, and Nvidia uses the publicity around a new generation to rake in orders for new GPUs. Blackwell combines two chips and is physically larger than the previous generation.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips have driven a tripling of quarterly Nvidia sales since the AI boom kicked off in late 2022, when OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT was announced. Most of the top AI companies and developers have been using Nvidia&#8217;s H100 to train their AI models over the past year. For example, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Meta<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> is buying hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H100 GPUs, it said this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia does not reveal the list price for its chips. They come in several different configurations, and the price an end consumer such as Meta or <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-4\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Microsoft<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> might pay depends on factors such as the volume of chips purchased, or whether the customer buys the chips from Nvidia directly through a complete system or through a vendor such as <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-5\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Dell<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-6\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">HP<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> or Supermicro that builds AI servers. Some servers are built with as many as eight AI GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <span class=\"waslinkname\">Nvidia announced<\/span> at least three different versions of the Blackwell AI accelerator \u2014 a B100, a B200, and a GB200 that pairs two Blackwell GPUs with an Arm-based CPU. They have slightly different memory configurations and are expected to ship later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia&#8217;s next-generation graphics processor for artificial intelligence, called Blackwell, will cost between $30,000 and $40,000 per unit, CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer on Tuesday on &#8220;Squawk on the Street.&#8221; &#8220;We had to invent some new technology to make it possible,&#8221; Huang said, holding up a Blackwell chip. 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