Two AMD EPYC 7742 64-core/128-thread CPUs

At its digital GPU Technology Conference 2020 which kicked off today, Nvidia officially announced the new Amper architecture based GA100 GPU, including the A100 Tensor Core GPU which will be a part of the DGX A100 AI System, and it appears that that same system will be powered by none other than two AMD EPYC CPUs.

GPU compute beast for DGX A100 AI system

The focus of the GTC 2020 was Nvidia's new A100 Tensor Core GPU, which is based on the new Ampere architecture GA100 GPU, and will be a part of Nvidia's new DGX A100 AI system. As a direct successor of the V100 accelerator, the A100 will bring both significant compute performance improvements and new features. 

54 billion transistors for 128 SMs or 8,192 CUDA cores and more

Nvidia GTC 2020 has kicked off and, as expected, we got to see the new Amper-architecture with GA100 GPU and A100 Tensor Core GPU in full details.

Uses Nvidia HGX technology with A100 Tensor Core GPUs

Supermicro has released two new systems designed for artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning applications that leverage the third-generation Nvidia HGX technology with the new Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs support for the new NVIDIA A100 GPUs across the company’s broad portfolio of 1U, 2U, 4U and 10U GPU servers.

For computer intensive workloads

Tyan has launched the latest GPU server platforms that support the Nvidia V100S Tensor Core and Nvidia T4 GPUs for a wide variety of compute-intensive workloads including AI training, inference, and supercomputing uses.

TSMC 7nm, next-gen Hopper 5nm

There have been rumors for quite some time about the Nvidia Ampere and the manufacturing nod. Nvidia’s first AI-based solution comes from TSMC, while some GPUs will be manufactured by Samsung too.

It can be quickly assembled with off the shelf parts

Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally has released plans for an open-source ventilator hardware design he developed in order to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic.

This one does not go to 11

Nvidia has produced an audio application and driver which removes microphone background noise on the fly.

Get Amped 

Roughly two months after the original GTC 2020 schedule, Nvidia is ready to host the GTC 2020 spring keynote. The choice of words "Get Amped” in the press release gives you an idea that 7nm Ampere might get released at that time.  

But it gets Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series from Ubisoft 

As Nvidia prepares for commercial service in June, it appears that Geforce Now will say farewell to some publishers, including Xbox Games Studios (Microsoft), but some games are coming to the service as well, including some from Ubisoft.