AMD and NVIDIA have reportedly reserved TSMC's entire CoWoS production for the next two years as both firms aggressively compete in the AI race.
20.04.2024 - 19:26 / wccftech.com / Muhammad Zuhair
NVIDIA has finally acknowledged tough competition in the AI segment, claiming that AI is the "largest computational problem in history."
NVIDIA's deep-rooted involvement in the AI sector has made it a benchmark for several firms to follow, not just with the company's hardware portfolio but the software ecosystem they have provided to clients.
It seems like NVIDIA is starting to realize that its monopoly over the AI markets won't be easy to retain moving ahead, as the company's VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, Bryan Catanzaro, has disclosed that the company sees the competition "strong and getting stronger," which shows that Team Green won't get an easy lead in this domain.
The statement certainly doesn't mean that NVIDIA is panicking and it isn't the first time that the company has acknowledged the efforts of its competitors. Outside of the AI domain, we have seen NVIDIA comment on AMD's Radeon GPU division and how they remain their prime competitor, and were excited to see the red team compete with them.
Still, it does show that the company might need to be more careful moving ahead, especially in terms of providing a superior set of market offerings, either taking the lead in the order supply or even competitive price-to-performance ratios. Another interesting fact highlighted by Bryan is the common misconception about NVIDIA's journey and the company's transition from primarily hardware-centric to a software-centric firm. Having strong hardware means nothing if you don't have software capabilities that take advantage of them and NVIDIA has a proven track record of harnessing a lot of juice out of its chips through software optimizations such as TensorRT which were reported recently.
You see, offerings such as NVIDIA's Hopper or even the upcoming Blackwell GPU may seem high-end when you talk about their respective specifications, but to manage such computing power, you require a robust software ecosystem that is optimized to the extent where you can leverage the capabilities of your hardware arsenal.
To do this, NVIDIA's CUDA comes in handy, and there's no exception to the fact that CUDA is one of the best out there. It even faces strict competition from the likes of Intel and AMD, who are battling it out with their solutions. This is why Bryan says that NVIDIA is solving the "largest computational problem" in history, which relates to AI computing and its dependency on software.
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AMD and NVIDIA have reportedly reserved TSMC's entire CoWoS production for the next two years as both firms aggressively compete in the AI race.
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