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Nvidia Unveils Faster Chip Aimed at Cementing AI Dominance
- Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation
- New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up
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Nvidia Corp. announced an updated AI processor that gives a jolt to the chip’s capacity and speed, seeking to cement the company’s dominance in a burgeoning market.
The Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination graphics chip and processor, will get a boost from a new type of memory, Nvidia said Tuesday at the Siggraph conference in Los Angeles. The product relies on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, which is able to access information at a blazing 5 terabytes per second.