NVIDIA’s Blackwell AI chips have reportedly hit a snag and may arrive months late

NVIDIA has found “design flaws” in its upcoming sequence of AI chips which will push their launch again at the very least three months, reviews. The corporate has reportedly began notifying clients of the delay, together with Microsoft. Massive orders of the brand new Blackwell chips have been initially slated to begin delivery someday this 12 months, however sources instructed The Information that they’re not anticipated till early 2025. Along with Microsoft, the publication reviews that Google, Meta and different main corporations have positioned bulk orders of the Blackwell chips which might be collectively price “tens of billions of {dollars}.”

NVIDIA again in March, touting efficiency boosts of as much as 30 instances what’s achieved by its flagship H100, which serves because the spine for a few of right this moment’s greatest AI methods. The corporate on the time additionally stated the Blackwell chips may scale back “price and power consumption by as much as 25x.” However in response to The Info, citing sources concerned with the Blackwell chip, “design issues arose unusually late within the manufacturing course of.”

NVIDIA and its chip producer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm, are actually doing check manufacturing runs to resolve the problems, in response to The Info, which reviews that the primary massive shipments might not exit till the primary quarter.