(Reuters) -Nvidia’s new Blackwell AI chips, which have already confronted delays, have encountered issues with accompanying servers that overheat, inflicting some clients to fret they won’t have sufficient time to get new information facilities up and working, the Info reported on Sunday.
The Blackwell graphics processing items overheat when linked collectively within the custom-made server racks the corporate has designed, the report mentioned, citing sources aware of the problem.
The AI chipmaker has requested its suppliers to vary the design of the racks a number of instances to resolve overheating issues, in response to Nvidia staff who’ve been engaged on the problem, in addition to clients and suppliers with data of it, the report mentioned with out naming the suppliers.
Nvidia didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark outdoors common enterprise hours.
Nvidia unveiled Blackwell chips in March and had earlier mentioned they might ship within the second quarter earlier than encountering delays, doubtlessly affecting clients akin to Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
Nvidia’s Blackwell chip takes two squares of silicon the dimensions of the corporate’s earlier providing and binds them right into a single element that’s 30 instances speedier at duties like offering responses from chatbots.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Modifying by Invoice Berkrot)
