Mitchell: Nvidia's Blackwell rollout was delayed by heating issues
Ty Mitchell · No Priors Ep. 93 | With Akash Systems' Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell · Dec 12, 2024 · at 12:03
Ty Mitchell, co-founder of Akash Systems, explains the growing impact of thermal bottlenecks on cutting-edge AI semiconductor rollouts.
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“When NVIDIA has introduced a couple of new chips first the Samsung HVM there were heating issues back then with Blackwell again, heating issues came up where that delay that rollout was delayed due to due to heating issues.”
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