[Hardware] NVIDIA Open To Releasing Arm-Based Grace CPU As A Standalone Product For Servers

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NVIDIA has hinted that they might offer a stand-alone version of its Arm-based Grace CPU for the server segment if there's an opportunity.

 

NVIDIA's Arm-Based Grace CPUs Might Come As Standalone Variants For Data Center Servers

For a quick recap, NVIDIA offers its Superchips with a combination of Grace CPU & Hopper GPU chips to leverage the whole AI and data center ecosystem. Team Green wants to offer its client a whole package to focus on different types of workloads in the industry, by integrating CPU+GPU into a single design. The Grace Superchips come in GPU+CPU and CPU-only offerings in a 2-chip packag

e.However, this limits customers to an extent, since they are now sort of "bounded" into using NVIDIA's Hopper architecture or two CPUs when their requirement might be just a single chip. However, NVIDIA does have plans to offer its high-end Grace CPU separately.NVIDIA's current GPU roadmap still shows that the company wants to extend its Superchip design in CPU+GPU packages with upcoming architectures such as GH200, GB200, and GX200. However, we might get a surprise announcement at the upcoming GTC that the company is bringing Grace CPU or its successor to the standalone server segment.

 

Speaking at the Wells Fargo event, NVIDIA's CFO Colette Kress was asked whether the company has plans to offer its Grace architecture in a standalone CPU for the server industry, and the official did reply with a bit of enthusiasm. Here is what she had to say:

While NVIDIA's CFO hasn't given an official confirmation, it seems like the company has plans to offer its Grace CPUs separately, judging by how the industry evolves going ahead. In terms of what the Grace CPU offers, it comes with a total of 144 (72 Arm Neoverse V2 per chip) cores, supports up to 960 GB of LPDDR5X memory with up to 1 TB/s of raw bandwidth, and has a combined power draw of 500W. Additional specs include 117 MB of L3 cache, and 58 Gen5 lanes, all while using the TSMC 4N process node.Offering Grace CPUs in a standalone package could be a game-changer for Team Green, given that their AI products have already segmented deep into the markets. Moreover, it would mean more competition for x86 solutions from companies like Intel and NVIDIA, since official benchmarks have revealed that Grace CPU offers competitive efficiency and performance versus the industry's offerings. Servers aren't the only market that NVIDIA plans to enter with standalone CPUs as the company is expected to enter the PC consumer market with Arm-based solutions by 2025..

 

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