NVIDIA has discovered “design flaws” in its upcoming line of artificial intelligence chips that could push back their release by at least three months. reports. It is reported that the company has started to notify customers, including Microsoft, about the delay. Large orders of the new Blackwell chips were originally scheduled to begin shipping this year, sources said Informationn that they are now not expected until early 2025. In addition to Microsoft, Google, Meta and other major companies have placed bulk orders for Blackwell chips worth “tens of billions of dollars,” the publication reports.
NVIDIA In March, it demonstrated up to 30 times the performance achieved with the flagship H100, which serves as the backbone for today’s largest AI systems. At the time, the company also said Blackwell chips could “reduce cost and power consumption by 25 times.” But according to InformationAccording to sources connected to the Blackwell chip, “design problems arose unusually late in the manufacturing process.”
NVIDIA and its chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company are now conducting trial production to get to the bottom of the problems. Informationstates that the first major shipments may not arrive before the first quarter.
