Nvidia said that the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre will make a new supercomputer dubbed “Alps” using the new Grace processors and built by HP Enterprise Co
Nvidia Corp is planning to make a server processor chip- ‘Grace’- using Arm Ltd’s technology, said a Reuters report. This is the most straightforward challenge the processor manufacturing company has ever given to its rival, Intel Corp.
Arm-based chips have been a tough competition of Intel’s products for quite some time now, and with this new server chip taking shape, Nvidia Corp will become its biggest competitor in the chip market yet.
Arm has been venturing into providing its technology to data centres for the past couple of years and with Nvidia’s entry into the market, their entry could speed up.
In a keynote speech announcing the chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the new server chip the “final piece of the puzzle” that will join Nvidia’s graphics and networking chips to form the “basic building block of the modern data centre,” added the report from Reuters.
Additionally, Nvidia said that Swiss National Supercomputing Centre will make a new supercomputer dubbed “Alps” using the new Grace processors and built by HP Enterprise Co.
The publication stated that Nvidia officials said that the company’s accelerator chips will continue to support central processors from Intel and AMD even as it dives into the market itself. Huang said that Nvidia will alternate its focus, concentrating on making accelerator chips that work with Arm-processors one year, and then chips that work with AMD and Intel chips in the next year.
Notably, Nvidia had earlier announced that it will buy Arm for $40 billion, which worried Arm’s other clientele in the data centre market that Nvidia’s could get early access to Arm’s technology with the acquisition. However, Arm dismissed these claims saying that all its customers have the same access to its property, regardless of other alliances.
