The U.S. tech publication The Information reported on Sunday that NVIDIA’s next-generation AI chip, Blackwell, has encountered another setback due to server overheating issues. The setback adds to delays in the chip’s production and release schedule.
Industry insiders revealed that the overheating issue reportedly surfaced during testing when the Blackwell GPU was integrated into custom server racks. NVIDIA has asked its suppliers to redesign the racks to address the problem.
Blackwell, first unveiled in March, was initially slated for release in the second quarter of this year. However, production defects pushed the mass production start date to the third quarter of fiscal year 2025, from November 2024 to January 2025.
Further delays in the launch schedule could significantly disrupt the plans of major tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Meta, who have placed orders for Blackwell chips.
“Nvidia is working with leading cloud service providers as an integral part of our engineering team and process. The engineering iterations are normal and expected,” an NVIDIA spokesperson told Reuters.
Blackwell’s innovative design combines two silicon chips of the same size as existing products, potentially enabling it to process tasks such as generating chatbot responses up to 30 times faster.
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