The king of the AI wave keeps momentum going

Aims to help elimate data bottlenecks

CEO has previously talked up $1.4 trillion spend over eight years

Generative AI giant is seeking a $730 billion valuation

Comments made after celebratory dinner with engineers from Nvidia and memory chipmaker SK Hynix

Company will also establish APAC’s largest Nvidia DGX Cloud cluster

Agreement represents the first “large-scale” Nvidia Grace-only deployment

The infrastructure will feature Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs and specialized engineering from the systems integrator Scherm Brasil

Company says ChipStack AI Super Agent has already been deployed by Nvidia and Qualcomm

System will be operated by telco’s Viettel AI unit

Will form the basis of ‘Germany Stack’ to support country’s sovereign AI efforts

Comes in same week Nvidia CEO downplays $100bn investment pledge in OpenAI

As company pushes back on claims that Jensen Huang was frustrated with OpenAI and its lack of discipline

Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit

CPU had previously only been available as part of Vera Rubin Superchip

Bipartisan legislation passed the House 42-2

Comments made by Peng Xiao during an interview at Davos

First RISC-V company to partner with Nvidia on the interconnect technology

Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X GPUs will be subject to the levy

Exports will only be permitted if sufficient supply of the GPUs exists in the US

Meanwhile, Nvidia says upfront payments from Chinese customers purchasing H200s is not company policy

Next-gen Rubin platform will see DPUs help control all network I/O to and from the compute node

Combines Nvidia AI infrastructure with Lenovo’s hardware and hybrid AI factory services

Will use AI to automate and accelerate key manufacturing processes