Nvidia Tackles Chipmaking Process, Claims 40X Speed Up with cuLitho | Tom's Hardware

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Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 15 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Intel Mask - Illustrative purposes only. (Image credit: Intel) At GTC 2023, Nvidia announced its new cuLitho software library for speeding up a critical bottleneck in the semiconductor manufacturing workflow. The new library speeds computational lithography, a technique used to create photomasks for chip production. Nvidia claims its new approach enables 500 DGX H100 systems wielding 4,000 Hopper GPUs

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