Nvidia has announced its latest GPU architecture, Blackwell, and it's filled with upgrades galore for AI inference and a few hints at what might be instore for next-gen gaming graphics cards. In the same breath as its announcement at GTC, major tech companies were also announcing the many thousands of systems they've just snapped up with Blackwell on-board.
AWS, Amazon's datacenter arm, announced it's bringing Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Superchips—two Blackwell GPUs and a Grace CPU incorporated on a single board—to EX2, which are effectively on-demand compute resources in the cloud. It's also already agreed to bring 20,736 GB200 Superchips (that's 41,472 Blackwell GPUs in total) to Project Ceiba, an AI supercomputer on AWS used by Nvidia for its own in-house AI R&D. Sure, that's roundabout Nvidia buying its own product, but there are other instances that show just how big demand is for these sorts of chips right now.
