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NVIDIA Hits Intel Where It Hurts With a New Data Center CPU

NVIDIA Hits Intel Where It Hurts With a New Data Center CPU

The chip, named after the computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, is an Arm-based chip that will be used to handle demanding AI and high-performance computing (HPC) tasks. NVIDIA claims Grace can deliver up to 30 times higher aggregate bandwidth than today's fastest servers, and up to 10 times higher performance for applications that process terabytes of data. NVIDIA's jump from data center GPUs to CPUs isn't surprising, but it could raise red flags at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), which still controls nearly 97% of the server CPU market, according to PassMark Software.