10/23/24 Nvidia's yield-killing design flaw in its Blackwell GPU was fixed months ago, and a refined version of the B100/B200 processors is about to enter MASS production. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, admitted this week that the flaw was entirely caused by Nvidia and said that the company's production partner TSMC helped fix it in a timely manner, according to Reuters. "We had a design flaw in Blackwell, it was functional, but the design flaw caused the yield to be low," Huang said. "It was 100% Nvidia's fault."
When the first reports about the design flaw emerged, some media outlets reported that TSMC was to blame and suggested this might be causing strain between Nvidia and its foundry partner. This was not the case, according to Huang. Nvidia's own miscalculations caused the problem. Huang also dismissed reports of tensions between the two companies as "fake news."
The now-fixed Blackwell GPUs for AI and supercomputers will enter mass production in late October and should start shipping early next year (which will still be Nvidia's fiscal year 2025). Wow so much demand!!