Inside the Battle for Chips That Will Power Artificial Intelligence
May 8, 2023
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Stacy Rasgon, a semiconductor expert from Bernstein Research, dives deep into the booming AI chip market. He discusses Nvidia's dominance and the fierce competition from startups and tech giants. The conversation highlights the critical role of GPUs in AI's rise and the economic implications of training versus inference. Rasgon also examines how proprietary chip development is reshaping the semiconductor landscape, alongside the challenges and opportunities presented by the evolving hardware ecosystem for artificial intelligence.
Nobody knows for sure who is going to make all the money when it comes to artificial intelligence. Will it be the incumbent tech giants? Will it be startups? What will the business models look like? It's all up in the air. One thing is clear though — AI requires a lot of computing power and that means demand for semiconductors. Right now, Nvidia has been a huge winner in the space, with their chips powering both the training of AI models (like ChatGPT) and the inference (the results of a query.) But others want in on the action as well. So how big will this market be? Can other companies gain a foothold and "chip away" at Nvidia's dominance? On this episode we speak with Bernstein semiconductor analyst Stacy Rasgon about this rapidly growing space and who has a shot to win it.