{"id":13454,"date":"2024-03-27T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:43:29","slug":"nvidia-unveils-blackwell-b200-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-designed-for-ai-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2024\/03\/27\/nvidia-unveils-blackwell-b200-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-designed-for-ai-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the \u201cworld\u2019s most powerful chip\u201d designed for AI | Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday, Nvidia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing\">unveiled<\/a>\u00a0the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip\u2014the company&#8217;s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors\u2014which Nvidia claims can reduce AI inference operating costs (such as running\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/11\/chatgpt-was-the-spark-that-lit-the-fire-under-generative-ai-one-year-ago-today\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>) and energy consumption by up to 25 times compared to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/09\/hopper-time-nvidias-most-powerful-ai-chip-yet-ships-in-october\/\">H100<\/a>. The company also unveiled the GB200, a &#8220;superchip&#8221; that combines two B200 chips and a Grace CPU for even more performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nvidia named the Blackwell architecture after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Blackwell\">David Harold Blackwell<\/a>, a mathematician who specialized in game theory and statistics and was the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. The platform introduces six technologies for accelerated computing, including a second-generation Transformer Engine, fifth-generation NVLink, RAS Engine, secure AI capabilities, and a decompression engine for accelerated database queries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted from: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/03\/nvidia-unveils-blackwell-b200-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-designed-for-ai\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/03\/nvidia-unveils-blackwell-b200-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-designed-for-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Nvidia\u00a0unveiled\u00a0the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip\u2014the company&#8217;s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors\u2014which Nvidia claims can reduce AI inference operating costs (such as running\u00a0ChatGPT) and energy consumption by up to 25 times compared to the\u00a0H100. The company also unveiled the GB200, a &#8220;superchip&#8221; that combines two B200 chips and a Grace&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2024\/03\/27\/nvidia-unveils-blackwell-b200-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-designed-for-ai-ars-technica\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the \u201cworld\u2019s most powerful chip\u201d designed for AI | Ars Technica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[812,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-nvidia"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}