Blackwell, the new GPU from NVIDIA that is said to be the world’s most powerful chip ever made, custom-built on TSMC’s 4NP process and featuring 208 billion transistors, is expected to cost anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000 when it’s released. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA Founder and CEO, shared the news with CNBC today, telling Squawk on the Street host Jim Cramer that R&D for Blackwell cost the company $10 billion.
Huang mentioned:
- “This is beyond the limits of physics. We had to invent some new technology to make it possible.”
- “It’s 208 billion transistors…gosh…in this little tiny part in the middle…”
- “…this…this will cost…you know…$30,000…$40,000…”
- “The very first one…the R&D budget of this generation…is probably something like $10 billion…”
- “We’re going to do our very best job at [recouping that]…”
The full segment:
NVIDIA’s official word on Blackwell:
Blackwell-architecture GPUs pack 208 billion transistors and are manufactured using a custom-built TSMC 4NP process. All Blackwell products feature two reticle-limited dies connected by a 10 terabytes per second (TB/s) chip-to-chip interconnect in a unified single GPU.