NVIDIA announces the H100 'Hopper' GPU
NVIDIA unveiled the Hopper architecture and H100 GPU with a Transformer Engine and FP8 support; the H100 became the defining AI training chip of the generative AI boom.
Key facts
- Announced at GTC on 22 March 2022
- 80 billion transistors, TSMC 4N process
- Transformer Engine with FP8 precision
- Extreme demand after ChatGPT drove NVIDIA's datacenter revenue surge in 2023–2024
What happened
NVIDIA introduced its datacenter GPU designed explicitly around Transformer workloads.
Why it matters
H100 supply became the key bottleneck and currency of the AI race; GPU counts became a proxy for lab ambition.
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: created
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Sources (2)
- officialNVIDIA Announces Hopper Architecture (NVIDIA Newsroom)
- discussionWikipedia: Hopper (microarchitecture)
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