News Nvidia reportedly mulls socketed design for Blackwell B300 AI GPUs — next-gen Blackwell GPUs may be removable by the user

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Nvidia is allegedly mulling sockets instead of modules for upcoming Blackwell B300 AI GPUs.

Nvidia reportedly mulls socketed design for Blackwell B300 AI GPUs — next-gen Blackwell GPUs may be removable by the user : Read more

 

[JRStern]

Sock it to ME?

 

[BoobleKooble]

hardware companies, of course as everyone knows, want you locked into their "jail".

they want "hardware as a service" and they want application development to be as "locked" to their hardware as with classic proprietary viscously closed source video game consoles

that is the "wet dream" of technology executives

going in the opposite direction will never happen.

socketing accelerators (any/all bus types), if it happens, will be functionally the equivalent of SNES video game cartridge sockets - you still have to buy the licensed hardware

in this sense, socketing is merely a component of "hardware as a service" business model