Overheating Blackwell chips bad news for NVIDIA [Video]

• A report indicates that the latest superchips from NVIDIA are overheating when stacked in servers.
• The company revealed Blackwell chipsets earlier this year, promising huge processing power for AI for up to 10 TBs per second.
• With several huge cloud computing like Microsoft and Meta waiting for Blackwell chips, this setback could see the chipsets delayed once again.

Uh-oh, NVIDIA’s Blackwell AI superchips – launched with much fanfare by the world’s most valuable company in March – are reportedly overheating when stacked together in server racks, according to a report from The Information.

The problem seems to be their placement as this issue only emerges when several chipsets are connected together in server racks and stored close together – racks that hold up to 72 chips, specifically.

NVIDIA is still running tests on the chipsets with select suppliers where the overheating has been picked up. It says the problem is a normal …