(Reuters) – Nvidia’s new Blackwell AI chips, which have already faced delays, have encountered problems with associated servers overheating, causing some customers to worry they won’t have enough time to get new data centers up and running, the information reported on Sunday .
Blackwell’s graphics processing units overheat when connected together in the custom server racks the company designed, the report said, citing sources familiar with the problem.
The AI ​​chipmaker has asked its suppliers several times to change the design of the racks to fix overheating issues, according to Nvidia employees who have worked on the problem, as well as customers and suppliers with knowledge of it, the report said without elaborating to mention the name. suppliers.
Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.
Nvidia unveiled Blackwell chips in March and had previously said they would ship in the second quarter before delays hit, potentially impacting customers like Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
Nvidia’s Blackwell chip takes two squares of silicon the size of the company’s previous offering and ties them into a single component that’s 30 times faster at tasks like providing chatbot responses.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
