Artificial intelligence: Microsoft gets twice as many Nvidia chips as rivals
According to reports in the Financial Times, Microsoft has bought almost half a million GPUs for generative artificial intelligence systems this year
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It is Microsoft the first customer of Nvidia when it comes to the sale of chips for artificial intelligence. This was revealed by an investigation by the Financial Times, according to which the major shareholder of OpenAI - the American company that launched Chat GPT - purchased almost half a million GPUs for generative artificial intelligence systems in 2024.
Also according to the Financial Times, Microsoft bought twice as many Nvidia AI chips as rivals this year.
The dominance of Nvidia chips
.The growth of generative artificial intelligence has been made possible by Nvidia and its high-performance chips designed precisely to support advanced AI. One of the first to be launched was the Nvidia H100 chip, later followed by even more advanced models. And since demand far exceeds supply, these chips have become extremely sought-after on the market. And therefore expensive. So much so that last February, for the first time, Nvidia's capitalisation exceeded $1 trillion.
The three-way challenge with Intel and Amd
Of course, Microsoft is not the only customer. Nvidia chips are also sold to Meta, to OpenAI itself, to Amazon, to Google. The big tech companies are also working on their own processors for AI. Meanwhile, Nvidia, but also other chip manufacturers such as Amd and Intel, are in the race to release new, even more efficient and powerful AI chips.
