"Predatory pre-annoucement" - The brain behind the largest CPU ever calls out Nvidia for spreading FUD amidst surprise updated GPU roadmap announcement

Date:
Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:58:58 +0000

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Nvidia is promising annual GPU releases until 2026, but not everyone thinks they can follow through on this.

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Nvidia is using deceptive practices and abusing its market dominance to quash the competition, according to Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman, after the firm unexpectedly announced its latest GPU product roadmap in October 2023.

Nvidia outlined new graphics cards set for annual release between 2024 and 2026 to add to the industry leading A100 and H100 GPUs currently in such high demand, with organizations across the industry sphere swallowing them up for generative AI workloads.

But Feldman labelled this news a predetary pre-announcement speaking to HPCWire , highlighting the firm has no obligation to see through on releasing any of the components its teased. By doing this, hes speculated its only confused the market, especially in light of the fact Nvidia was, say, a year late with the H100 GPU. And he doubts Nvidia can see through on this
strategy, nor might it want to. Nvidia is just throwing sand up in the air

Nvidia teased yearly leaps on a single architecture in its announcement, with the Hopper Next following the Hpper GPU in 2024, followed by the Ada Lovelace-Next GPU, a successor to the Ada Lovelace graphics card, set for release in 2025.

Companies have been making chips for a long time, and nobody has ever been able to succeed on a one-year cadence because the fabs do not change at a one-year pace, Feldman countered to HPCWire.

In many ways, it has been a terrible block of time for Nvidia. Stability AI said they were going to go on Intel. Amazon said the Anthropic was going to run on them. We announced a monstrous deal that would produce enough compute so it would be clear that you could build large clusters with us.

[Nvidias] response, not surprising to me, in the strategy realm, is not a better product. Its throw sand up in the air and move your hands a lot. And you know, Nvidia was a year late with the H100.

Feldman has designed the worlds largest AI chip in the world, the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 2 CPU which is 46,226 square-mm and contains 2.6 trillion transistors across 850,000 cores.

He told the New Yorker that massive chips are better than smaller ones
because cores communicate faster when theyre on the same chip rather than being scattered across a server room. More from TechRadar Pro Check out our roundup of the best graphics cards for all purposes These are the best graphics cards from AMD AMD vs Nvidia : who makes the best GPUs?



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