NVIDIA declares war on Intel: Launches its first CPU based on ARM mobile architecture, 10 times more efficient than Intel server chips

After having to fight AMD and then Apple, now Intel has a new competitor, NVIDIA.

To this day, Nvidia is still a brand associated with the world of GPU graphics processing chips. However, at the recent GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA unveiled its first CPU processor chip, which will be used for data centers.

Nvidia’s new CPU chip is named Grace, after the pioneer in the field of computer science – Grace Hopper. NVIDIA’s Grace chip is designed based on ARM mobile architecture, promising to deliver 10 times the performance of today’s most powerful servers equipped with Intel chips.

The reason why the performance of the NVIDIA Grace chip is significantly improved is thanks to NVIDIA’s NVLink technology. This technology provides data transfer speeds of up to 900GB/s between the CPU and GPU, which NVIDIA says is up to 30 times faster than today’s leading servers. In addition, the use of LPDDR5x RAM will also provide twice the bandwidth of DDR4 RAM.

After announcing its entry into the CPU market, NVIDIA is now a three-chip manufacturing company (specializing in both CPUs, GPUs and DPUs). NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang said: “Advanced AI and data science are pushing computer architecture beyond its limits, to handle unimaginable amounts of data. Along with the GPUs and DPUs, the Grace CPU provides the third foundational technology for server computing and data processing.”

Nvidia said it may have to wait another 2 years for these Grace chips to be officially shipped. But right now, the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) and the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory have announced plans to use NVIDIA Grace chips for their data centers. .

This could be a huge threat to Intel, which makes chips for data centers. Intel had many difficulties when it had to compete with AMD in the computer chip segment, then it was Apple’s turn to produce processor chips based on ARM mobile architecture, now even NVIDIA threatens the whole segment. data center chips.

Reference: neowin