Nvidia shows signs in [2023]

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NVIDIA today announced a breakthrough that brings accelerated computing to the field of computational lithography, enabling semiconductor leaders like ASML, TSMC and Synopsys to accelerate the design and manufacturing of next-generation chips, just as current production processes are nearing the limits of what physics makes possible.
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The new NVIDIA cuLitho software library for computational lithography is being integrated by TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, as well as electronic design automation leader Synopsys into their software, manufacturing processes and systems for the latest-generation NVIDIA Hopper™ architecture GPUs. Equipment maker ASML is working closely with NVIDIA on GPUs and cuLitho, and is planning to integrate support for GPUs into all of its computational lithography software products.

Running on GPUs, cuLitho delivers a performance leap of up to 40x beyond current lithography — the process of creating patterns on a silicon wafer — accelerating the massive computational workloads that currently consume tens of billions of CPU hours every year.

It enables 500 NVIDIA DGX H100 systems to achieve the work of 40,000 CPU systems, running all parts of the computational lithography process in parallel, helping reduce power needs and potential environmental impact.
 

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The H100 NVL has a full 6144-bit memory interface (1024-bit for each HBM3 stack) and memory speed up to 5.1 Gbps. This means that the maximum throughput is 7.8GB/s, more than twice as much as the H100 SXM. Large Language Models require large buffers and higher bandwidth will certainly have an impact as well.
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Blimey. I could use a couple of those. Though I really don't want to ask the price (H100 PCIe is £32k list price here).
 
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