Nvidia "Ada Lovelace" uppges få 18 432 CUDA-kärnor

Den "nyheten" är någonstans i spektrat mellan FUD och clickbait dock.

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I really do know how semiconductors are manufactured because I have a master's degree in electrical engineering. Your first mistake is that you confused "semiconductor lasers" with "lasers used for semiconductor (manufacturing)" that the article mentions, those two things are completely different. Semiconductor lasers are lasers made from semiconductors, usually III-V semiconductors such as Indium Phosphide and are used for long distance optical fiber communications. Secondly, whoever wrote the article also has no idea how semiconductors are manufactured. The author mentions ASML needing neon, which is a manufacturer for photolithography equipment. The current manufacturing nodes use EUV photolithography which uses CO2 lasers to etch patterns on silicon wafers. Older nodes might still use DUV photolithography which also doesn't use neon lasers (like HeNe), but rather excimer lasers such as ArF or KrF.

Upon digging deeper I found that the only use of Neon in photolithography is as a carrier gas for the gases used in excimer lasers in these older nodes so it won't even effect state of the art chip production. Moreover the semiconductor industry has faced a neon shortage in the past in 2016 so this isn't even a new issue. Also I've seen the exact same article copy pasted verbatim in multiple websites so it's just a lazy clickbait article.

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Med tanke på att kylarna till RTX 30-serien redan är uppe på tre kortplatser och över 300 mm långa så finns det nog inget sätt att kyla de nya korten utan en väldigt radikal omdesign av kylarna och/eller mer exotiska kylmetoder. Det är RTX 30-serien som är avvikaren vad gäller strömförbrukning, så det är nog mer sannolikt att vi ser en återgång till normala siffror med <250W TDP för korten upp till RTX 4080 åtminstone.