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Nvidia's Tesla A100 has a whopping 6,912 CUDA cores - Specs Detailed
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AlienALX
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I watched an interesting stream last night about Ampere. It raised some decent theories.
As we know, we were supposed to get Ampere ages ago. Then all of a sudden it's Turing and it's really expensive. They suggested Ampere might not have been ready, or even working properly, hence the "Bolt the RTX stuff onto Pascal" which would have been expensive.
Which suggests that yes, Ampere should be a fair chunk cheaper. Now whether or not we will see that as buyers? who knows.
As we know, we were supposed to get Ampere ages ago. Then all of a sudden it's Turing and it's really expensive. They suggested Ampere might not have been ready, or even working properly, hence the "Bolt the RTX stuff onto Pascal" which would have been expensive.
Which suggests that yes, Ampere should be a fair chunk cheaper. Now whether or not we will see that as buyers? who knows.
Samsung, it's been known for a few years now, Nvidia Korea fully confirmed it last year. EDIT: That may be the GA102 and below only actually, whichever one taped out in November 2019 is Samsung I know anyway. This might just be too big for them, in which case ofc it kinda has to be TSMC.
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WYP
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As far as I can tell, Nvidia hasn't officially stated its foundry partner.
Edit; Nevermind, Jensen has confirmed that they are using TSMC for this chip.
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