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Nvidia H100

Nvidia H100

Image creditGeekerwan (极客湾), via Wikimedia Commons (H100 PCIe card; video still)
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Nvidia H100

Year
2022
Creator
Jensen Huang (CEO) and Nvidia GPU architecture teams
Company
Nvidia
Location
Santa Clara, California

Description

The H100 is a data center GPU from Nvidia, based on the Hopper architecture, which Nvidia named after the computer scientist Grace Hopper. Nvidia announced it in March 2022, with 80 billion transistors and a Transformer Engine for AI models.

Importance

Nvidia designed its Transformer Engine for models that use the design from the Google paper in this room. On May 30, 2023, Nvidia briefly reached a $1 trillion market value during a period of strong investor interest in AI. In October 2025, Nvidia became the first company with a $5 trillion market value.

Interesting fact

At the launch, Nvidia said that 20 H100 GPUs could carry the same amount of data as all internet traffic in the world.

Sources

  1. NVIDIA Announces Hopper Architecture, the Next Generation of Accelerated Computing ↗NVIDIA Newsroom · 2022-03-22
  2. Nvidia Reveals Hopper H100 GPU With 80 Billion Transistors ↗Tom's Hardware · 2022-03-22
  3. Nvidia crosses into $1 trillion market cap before giving back gains ↗CNBC · 2023-05-30
  4. Nvidia becomes first company to reach $5 trillion valuation ↗CNBC · 2025-10-29
  5. Nvidia touches $1 trillion market cap as chipmaker rides AI wave ↗Yahoo Finance · 2023-05-30