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nVidia taps Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU for Hopper-powered DGX H100

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of nVidia, confirmed the CPU choice during a fireside chat Tuesday at the BofA Securities 2022 Global Technology Conference. Nvidia positions the DGX family as the premier vehicle for its datacenter GPUs, pre-loading the machines with its software and optimizing them to provide the fastest AI performance as individual systems or in large supercomputer clusters. "We buy a lot of x86s. We have great partnerships with Intel and AMD. For the Hopper generation, I've selected Sapphire Rapids to be the CPU for nVidia Hopper, and Sapphire Rapids has excellent single-threaded performance." This comes after industry publication ServeTheHome reported in mid-April that nVidia had motherboard designs for both Sapphire Rapids and AMD's upcoming EPYC CPU, code-named Genoa, for the DGX H100 as the GPU giant had not yet decided on which x86 chip it would use.

Intel's new server processor is not finished. After being delayed several times, Intel admits to further delays while also looking ahead. Because the refresh Emerald Rapids should appear within a year. Not only was the second quarter more than obviously missed, the ramp-up phase planned after that was delayed more than originally planned, according to Intel's own statements. So there are probably still difficulties in validating the CPU and the entire new platform, but there are said to be no manufacturing problems. Intel Ice Lake-SP remains the more important product for the year. Bottom line is that Intel Sapphire Rapids is the next product to be launched more than a year late, in the end it should even be more than 1.5 years. Intel was at least able to equip a few demo systems for the ISC 2022 in Hamburg last week, some of which the editors were also able to look at, but it will remain so for some time.

Izvor: The Register i ComputerBase