➀ NVIDIA is investing approximately $500 million in a Blackwell-powered supercomputer facility in Israel; ➁ The facility is located in Yokne'am and will be approximately 10,000 square meters; ➂ It will house thousands of liquid-cooled Blackwell GPUs and other high-performance computing components.
Recent #Blackwell GPU news in the semiconductor industry
➀ The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB is rumored to be 5% faster in rasterization than the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER; ➁ It is expected to offer 5-10% more performance in RT; ➂ The RTX 5070 18GB version is rumored to have faster GDDR7 memory modules and 50% more VRAM.
➀ NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card could cost between $1999 and $2499; ➁ The RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 models are priced between $1199 and $1499 and $599 to $699 respectively; ➂ The new RTX 50 series GPUs are expected to launch in 2025.
1. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predicts that the upcoming Blackwell GPU architecture will be the most successful product in the company's history and for the entire history of computers. 2. The Blackwell architecture is expected to expand beyond AI GPUs into the gaming market with the GeForce RTX 50 series. 3. NVIDIA anticipates a massive growth in the AI market, projecting it to reach $50 trillion.