Microsoft bought twice as many of Nvidia’s flagship chips as any of its largest rivals in the US and China this year, as OpenAI’s biggest investor accelerated its investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Analysts at Omdia, a technology consultancy, estimate that Microsoft bought 485,000 of Nvidia’s “Hopper” chips this year. That put Microsoft far ahead of Nvidia’s next biggest US customer Meta, which bought 224,000 Hopper chips, as well as its cloud computing rivals Amazon and Google.
With demand outstripping supply of Nvidia’s most advanced graphics processing units for much of the past two years, Microsoft’s chip hoard has given it an edge in the race to build the next generation of AI systems.
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