Blackwell

American  

[blak-wuhl, -wel] / ˈblæk wəl, -ˌwɛl /

noun

1. Antoinette Louisa (Brown), 1825–1921, U.S. clergywoman, abolitionist, and women's-rights activist.

2. Elizabeth, 1821–1910, U.S. physician, born in England: first woman physician in the U.S.

3. Henry Brown, 1825?–1909, U.S. editor, abolitionist, and suffragist, born in England (husband of Lucy Stone).

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Blackwell Scientific  

/ blăck′wĕl′ /

1. British-born American physician who was the first woman doctor in the United States. In 1851 she founded an infirmary for women and children in New York City that her sister Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), also a physician, directed. Emily Blackwell was the first woman doctor to perform major surgeries on a regular basis.

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Example Sentences

On the basis of pure computing power, the U.S. holds an indisputable edge, as Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips are estimated to be five-times more powerful than Huawei’s flagship Ascend chips.

From MarketWatch

That follows companies’ efforts last year to access chips in Nvidia’s Blackwell series.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Going from Hopper to Blackwell, first you go from air-cooled to liquid-cooled. The rack goes from weighing round numbers 1,000 pounds to 3,000 pounds. Goes from round numbers 30 kilowatts, which is 30 American homes, to 130 kilowatts, which is 130 American homes.”

From MarketWatch

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips began shipping in volume in the first quarter of 2025, and xAI, with its substantial allocation, will be among the first to deploy them at scale.

From MarketWatch

When xAI releases the first frontier model trained primarily on Blackwell architecture, the market will be forced to re-evaluate where Tesla sits in the AI hierarchy.

From MarketWatch