NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced that Taiwan’s TSMC has fixed all design flaws in the company’s latest AI chip, Blackwell. He also dismissed rumors of discord between NVIDIA and TSMC as fake news.
According to Reuters on Wednesday, CEO Huang mentioned NVIDIA’s latest AI chip, Blackwell, at an event in Denmark celebrating the launch of the new supercomputer named “Gefion.”
NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell chip in March. It was originally slated for release in the second quarter of this year. However, delays arose due to design flaws, fueling speculation about conflicts with its partner, TSMC.
Huang acknowledged, “We had a design flaw in Blackwell. It was functional, but the design flaw caused the yield to be low. It was 100% NVIDIA’s fault.”
He then dismissed reports of conflict between NVIDIA and TSMC as fake news, adding that TSMC actually helped resolve the design issues.
“In order to make a Blackwell computer work, seven different types of chips were designed from scratch and had to be ramped into production at the same time,” Huang explained. “What TSMC did, was to help us recover from that yield difficulty and resume the manufacturing of Blackwell at an incredible pace.”
At a Goldman Sachs conference, NVIDIA recently announced that Blackwell will be released in the fourth quarter. According to the company, the Blackwell chip is expected to perform tasks, such as providing answers for chatbots, 30 times faster than previous models.
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