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7.2 Terabit/s HBM Bandwidth raised my eyebrows. But then I googled, and it looks like GB200 is 16Tb/s. In plebe land, 2Tb is pretty awesome. These continue to
by vessenes 2y ago
7.2 Terabit/s HBM Bandwidth raised my eyebrows. But then I googled, and it looks like GB200 is 16Tb/s. In plebe land, 2Tb is pretty awesome.
These continue to be mostly for bragging rights and strategic safety I think. I bet they are not on premium processor nodes; If I worked at GOOG I’d probably think about these as competitive insurance vis-a-vis NVIDIA — total costs of chip team, software, tape outs, and increased data center energy use probably wipe out any savings from not buying NV, but you are 100% not beholden to Jensen.