The first portion of this report will explain HBM, the manufacturing process, dynamics between vendors, KVCache offload, disaggregated prefill decode, and wide / high-rank EP. The rest of the repor…| SemiAnalysis
Robots have powered manufacturing for decades, yet they stayed single-purpose and thrived only in perfect settings. Previous attempts at intelligent machines overpromised and underdelivered. But th…| SemiAnalysis
MGX GB200A NVL36, B102, B20, CoWoS-L, CoWoS-S, GB200A NVL64, ConnectX-8, Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling, NVLink Backplane, PCB, CCL, Substrate, BMC, Power Delivery Nvidia’s Blackwell family is encou…| SemiAnalysis
Hyperscale customization, NVLink Backplane, NVL36, NVL72, NVL576, PCIe Retimers, Switches, Optics, DSP, PCB, InfiniBand/Ethernet, Substrate, CCL, CDU, Sidecar, PDU, VRM, Busbar, Railkit, BMC Nvidia…| SemiAnalysis
GPT-4 Profitability, Cost, Inference Simulator, Parallelism Explained, Performance TCO Modeling In Large & Small Model Inference and Training Nvidia’s announcement of the B100, B200, and GB200 …| SemiAnalysis
Nvidia H100, Google TPUv5, AMD MI300, Intel Gaudi3/PVC, Cerebras WSE2 AI accelerators are becoming increasingly power-hungry. The Nvidia H100 has thermal design power (TDP) of 700 watts (W) compare…| SemiAnalysis
Specifications, Volumes, GPT-4 performance, Next Generation Timing / Name, Backend Design Partner Microsoft is currently conducting the largest infrastructure buildout that humanity has ever seen. …| SemiAnalysis
From DLRM to LLM, internal workloads win, but how does Google fare in external workloads? The dawn of the AI era is here, and it is crucial to understand that the cost structure of AI-driven softwa…| SemiAnalysis
In our AI Scaling Laws article from late last year, we discussed how multiple stacks of AI scaling laws have continued to drive the AI industry forward, enabling greater than Moore’s Law grow…| SemiAnalysis
H100 Rental Price Cuts, AI Neocloud Giants and Emerging Neoclouds, H100 Cluster Bill of Materials and Cluster Deployment, Day to Day Operations, Cost Optimizations, Cost of Ownership and Returns Th…| SemiAnalysis
Transceiver to GPU Ratio, DSP Growth, Revealing The Real Boogeyman At GTC, Nvidia announced 8+ different SKUs and configurations of the Blackwell architecture. While there are some chip level diffe…| SemiAnalysis
The test time scaling paradigm is thriving. Reasoning models continue to rapidly improve, and are becoming more effective and affordable. Evaluations measuring real world software engineering tasks…| SemiAnalysis
Over the last few months, there have been a number of headlines raising concerns about Microsoft’s reduction in datacenter leasing activities including a few datacenter leasing cancellations.…| SemiAnalysis
SemiAnalysis is expanding the AI engineering team! If you have an experience in PyTorch, training, inferencing, system modelling, SLURM/Kubernetes, send us your resume and 5 bullet points demonstra…| SemiAnalysis
Huawei is making waves with its new AI accelerator and rack scale architecture. Meet China’s newest and most powerful Chinese domestic solution, the CloudMatrix 384 built using the Ascend 910C. Thi…| SemiAnalysis
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the US has reached a macro-level scale, and ensuring continuous growth will require ample availability of capital. We believe that the economic uncertainty indu…| SemiAnalysis
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The Reasoning Token Explosion AI model progress has accelerated tremendously, and in the last six months, models have improved more than in the previous six months. This trend will continue b…| SemiAnalysis
Cluster deployments are an order of magnitude larger in scale with Gigawatt-scale datacenters coming online at full capacity much faster than most believe. As such, there are considerable desi…| SemiAnalysis
IEDM 2022 Round-UpWe recently attended the 68th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. IEDM is a premiere conference for state-of-the-art semiconductors device technol…| SemiAnalysis
The DeepSeek Narrative Takes the World by Storm DeepSeek took the world by storm. For the last week, DeepSeek has been the only topic that anyone in the world wants to talk about. As it currently s…| SemiAnalysis
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Foundry Cost Wall, Whale Customers, Datacenter Share, The Money Problem Before Pat Gelsinger took over Intel as CEO, the company spent over a decade in a slow descent due to a focus on financial en…| SemiAnalysis
Merry Christmas has come thanks to Santa Huang. Despite Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU’s having multiple delays, discussed here, and numerous times through the Accelerator Model due to silicon, packaging, …| SemiAnalysis
There has been an increasing amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) regarding AI Scaling laws. A cavalcade of part-time AI industry prognosticators have latched on to any bearish narrative the…| SemiAnalysis
Huawei Fab Network, WFE Vendors Cry Wolf, Framework for Future Controls AI competitiveness is a key national security concern. When “expert-level science and engineering” or even AGI are possible o…| SemiAnalysis
Fab Cost, SRAM Scaling, WFE Implications, Backside Power Details, TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Rapidus TSMC won FinFET. All noteworthy leading edge logic designs, even Intel’s, are manufactured on TS…| SemiAnalysis
The US government lobbed the largest salvo in the new technology cold war with its new Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion. These new export restrictions are completely unprecedented in…| SemiAnalysis
Intro SemiAnalysis has been on a five-month long quest to settle the reality of MI300X. In theory, the MI300X should be at a huge advantage over Nvidia’s H100 and H200 in terms of specifications an…| SemiAnalysis