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The Star
29-05-2025
- Science
- The Star
Nvidia, Dell to supply next US Department of Energy supercomputer
FILE PHOTO: A NVIDIA logo is shown at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo BERKELEY, California - (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday said its "Doudna" due in 2026 will use technology from Nvidia and Dell. The computer, named for Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Doudna who made key CRISPR gene-editing discoveries, will be housed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. At an event at the lab attended by Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, officials said that the system will use Nvidia's latest "Vera Rubin" chips built into liquid-cooled servers by Dell and will be used by 11,000 researchers. (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in Berkeley, California)
The Star
23-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
Oracle to buy $40 billion of Nvidia chips for OpenAI's US data center, FT reports
A NVIDIA logo is shown at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) -Oracle will spend around $40 billion on Nvidia's higher-performance chips to power OpenAI's new U.S. data center, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The cloud service provider will purchase around 400,000 of Nvidia's most powerful GB200 chips and lease the computing power to OpenAI, the report said, citing several people familiar with the matter. OpenAI, Nvidia and Oracle did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The data center is a part of the U.S. Stargate project, led by top AI firms in the country, to boost America's heft in the artificial intelligence industry amid heating global competition. (Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)
The Star
30-04-2025
- Business
- The Star
Nvidia CEO says Trump should revise AI chip export rules, Bloomberg News reports
A NVIDIA logo is shown at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huangsaid he would like the Trump administration to change the regulations related to exporting AI technology from the U.S. for businesses to better capitalize on future opportunities, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The administration is considering changes to a Biden-era regulation that restricts access to advanced U.S. artificial intelligence chips, including possibly eliminating a tiered system that determines how many chips countries can obtain, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion is set to take effect on May 15 and aims to limit the most powerful AI chips and certain model weights from companies like Nvidia to keep cutting-edge computing within the U.S. and its close allies. The White House and Nvidia did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. "I'm not sure what the new diffusion rule is going to be, but whatever it turns out to be, it really has to recognize that the world has changed fundamentally since the previous diffusion rule was released," Huang said in a brief meeting with the media, according to the Bloomberg News report. Earlier in the day, Huang expressed confidence in the company's ability to manufacture chips domestically using the resources available within the U.S., according to an interview by CNBC. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru)
