NVIDIA and AMD ‘Key Beneficiaries’ in Supercomputing Race – BofA
2022.06.01 16:52
NVIDIA (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) ‘Key Beneficiaries’ in Supercomputing Race – BofA
By Senad Karaahmetovic
Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya has reflected on the latest Top 500 supercomputers list, released by Top500.org.
The semi-annual list is focused on the most powerful machines installed by governments, national labs, and universities. The analyst noted that the compute performance across the Top 500 is up +45% HoH.
Arya shared his key takeaways from the updated Top 500 list.
“(1) 166 systems now use accelerators (up 11% HoH/14% YoY), representing a 33% attach rate (up 320bps HoH/420bps YoY). This could be particularly positive for broader semis, potentially signaling increased accelerated adoption for rest of cloud/data center market (we est.
