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SoftBank plans to build a new supercomputer based on Nvidia Blackwell chips
- SoftBank will be the first to build a supercomputer on such chips
- It will be a demonstration of SoftBank's ambitions in the AI market
- The new supercomputer will be the most powerful ever for Japan
- It is expected to be based on the Nvidia DGX B200
- The next version will use Nvidia Grace Blackwell
- Until early 2019, Japan's SoftBank held a 4% stake in Nvidia
- Today, such a stake could be worth about $178 billion
- Production issues slowed down the release of Blackwell
- SoftBank likely secured a “favorable place in line”
- SoftBank also uses Nvidia's cellular networking solutions
- Its telecom division will launch its AI based on them
- The result will be an AI network covering all of Japan
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