(Reuters) -Nvidia's new Blackwell ai chips, which have already faced delays, have encountered problems with accompanying servers overheating, leading some customers to fear they won't have enough time to get the new centers up and running. of data, Information reported on Sunday. .
Blackwell graphics processing units overheat when connected together in server racks designed to hold up to 72 chips, the report said, citing sources familiar with the problem.
The chipmaker has asked its suppliers to change the design of the frames several times to resolve overheating issues, according to Nvidia (NASDAQ:) employees who have been working on the issue, as well as customers and suppliers with knowledge of the issue. , according to the report. he said without naming the suppliers.
“Nvidia is working with leading cloud service providers as an integral part of our engineering team and process. Engineering iterations are normal and expected,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
In March, Nvidia unveiled Blackwell chips and had previously said they would ship in the second quarter before facing delays, which could impact customers like Meta Platforms (NASDAQ ), Alphabet's Google (NASDAQ and Microsoft (NASDAQ ).
Nvidia's Blackwell chip takes two squares of silicon the size of the company's previous offering and stitches them together into a single component that's 30 times faster at tasks like providing chatbot responses.
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