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Blackwell

[blak-wuhl, -wel]

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).



Blackwell

  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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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that demand for AI and its Blackwell chip is exponentially high, signaling a new industrial revolution.

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“Demand for Blackwell is really, really high,” he told CNBC.

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Blackwell is Nvidia’s most advanced chip, used for generative AI and large language models.

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Nvidia is releasing its highly-anticipated Vera Rubin chip next year, promising that it will be more than twice as powerful as its current generation, known as Grace Blackwell.

According to specs Nvidia laid out at its GTC conference in March, the initial Rubin family will sport 3.3 times the computing performance of the most powerful Blackwell chips Nvidia is currently selling.

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