Nvidia $NVDA Blackwell delayed by 3 months due to design flaws.
Nvidia informs its biggest customers Microsoft and Meta. Nvidia Corp.’s upcoming artificial intelligence chips will be delayed due to design flaws, The Information reports, citing two unidentified people who help produce the chip and its server hardware. The chips may be delayed by three months or more, which could affect Nvidia’s customers including Meta Platforms Inc., Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. Nvidia this week informed Microsoft about a delay affecting the most advanced AI chip models in the Blackwell series, according to an unidentified Microsoft employee and another person. The delays mean big shipments aren’t expected until the first quarter of 2025, The Information added. Read more: Elliott Says Nvidia Is in A ‘Bubble’ and AI Is ‘Overhyped’: FT A spokesperson for Nvidia wouldn’t comment on its statements to customers about the delay, according to the report, but told The Information that “production is on track to ramp” later this year. Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services and Meta declined to comment to the publication, while a TSMC spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment. Source: Bloomberg, JaguarAnalytics
Only 5% of firms currently use AI
Source: BofA
The "ChatGPT era"...
The Nasdaq 100 post-ChatGPT at just over 400 days is now up more than it was following any of the other major technological releases of the last half-century. But if we are to follow the Netscape blueprint we have a lot of more bull left... Source: Bespoke, TME
NVIDIA vs. the tiny mining sector
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AI Evolution has tested 119+ AI tools in the last 6 months.
But most of them are useless in my daily life. Here are 8 AI tools I use almost daily: Credit: Razib ul Karim, AI evolution
Here's the link to a great article from Sequoia which argues the tech industry needs $600B in AI revenue to justify the money spent on GPUs and data centers:
https://lnkd.in/exFU9Wdp Bottom-line >>> OpenAI is the biggest AI pure play and is at $3.4B annual run rate. This feels like a bubble unless products worth buying show up. Source: Sequoia, Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life
AI is eating software development
Source: FRED, GBR LLC on X
Electricity consumption has skyrocketed, and this is just the beginning.
As highlighted by Otavio (Tavi) Costa, the surge in electric cars, electric heating, and new AI advancements is dramatically increasing our electricity needs. Among the questions raised? 1) Is the global economy prepared for these changes? 2) Could AI be inflationary in the short run and deflationary in the long run? The extensive infrastructure necessary to harness AI requires hardware expansion, while commodities (particularly metals) remain historically constrained. Source: Crescat Capital, Bloomberg
