Microsoft to Unveil Custom AI Chips to Fight Nvidia's Monopoly

- Microsoft is planning to announce its custom AI chips, codenamed Athena, during its annual Ignite conference in November.

- The custom chips are designed to compete with NVIDIA's dominance in the AI accelerator market.

- Microsoft aims to match or surpass the performance of NVIDIA's offerings while reducing the cost of AI infrastructure.

- The high cost of NVIDIA's GPUs, such as the H100, can reach up to $30,000, making it expensive to build data centers filled with these …

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