The AI Boom Runs on Chips, but It Can’t Get Enough

‘It’s like toilet paper during the pandemic.’ Startups, investors scrounge for computational firepower.

Nvidia’s advanced graphic chips excel at doing lots of computations simultaneously, which is crucial for AI work. NVIDIA/via REUTERS

The artificial-intelligence revolution is being likened by Google’s chief executive to humanity’s harnessing of fire. Now if only the industry could secure the digital kindling to fuel it.

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