Microsoft has surpassed all its competitors in terms of purchases of the latest Nvidia Hopper chip, which is used to train AI models. The company bought around 485 thousand chips, double that of Meta*, which bought only 224 thousand, writes the Financial Times, citing data from the consulting firm Omdia.
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Microsoft’s other competitors include Amazon, which bought 196,000 Hopper processors, and Google parent Alphabet, which ordered 169,000 chips.
According to Omdia, the Chinese Tencent and ByteDance bought another 230 thousand processors, although Nvidia, following American restrictions, supplied them with a reduced version of the chip. Elon Musk’s companies, xAI and Tesla, together purchased around 200 thousand chips.
Nvidia released Hopper in 2022 to replace the legacy Ampere architecture. The device contains 80 billion transistors and is capable of delivering up to 30 teraflops of maximum performance according to the IEEE FP64 standard and up to 60 teraflops of maximum performance according to the FP32 standard.
The rise of artificial intelligence allowed Nvidia to increase its revenue by 94% in the third quarter of 2024, to a record of $35.1 billion. The largest increase was shown in the company’s revenue from data centers: the figure increased by 112%, up to $30.77 billion. In early November, Nvidia became the first company in history whose market capitalization exceeded $3.6 trillion.
Microsoft is one of the major players in the AI industry. The company is a key investor in OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT chatbot. OpenAI used Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure to train the latest o1 model.
Since the arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022, Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta have collectively added more than $8 trillion in capitalization, Bloomberg wrote. According to the agency’s estimates, by the end of 2024, spending by Amazon, Microsoft, Meta* and Alphabet on developments in the field of artificial intelligence will reach a record $200 billion.
*Meta is recognized as an extremist organization in Russia and its activities are prohibited.
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