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nVidia to make server processors, targeting Intel profit center

The graphics chipmaker has designed a central processing unit, or CPU, based on technology from Arm Ltd., a company it’s trying to acquire from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the first to use the chips in their computers. The CPU, named Grace after the late pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, is designed to work closely with nVidia graphics chips to better handle new computing problems that will come with a trillion parameters. Systems working with the new chip will be 10 times faster than those currently using a combination of nVidia graphics chips and Intel CPUs.

The new product will be available at the beginning of 2023, nVidia said. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is the only other maker of these X86 CPUs and graphics chips. Chips based on the Zeus cores could come in either 7nm or 5nm flavors and offer a 50% increase in IPC over the current Arm N1 cores. The Arm V1 platform supports all the latest high-end tech, like PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and either HBM2e or HBM3, along with the CCIX 1.1 interconnect. It appears that, at least for now, nVidia is utilizing its own NVLink instead of CCIX to connect its CPU and GPU.

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Izvor: Interneti