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New global AI computing capacity is doubling every 9 months

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Epoch AI estimates that the computing capacity of AI chips sold worldwide is doubling roughly every nine months. The estimate uses quarterly sales figures from six chip designers (Nvidia, Google, AMD, Amazon, Huawei, and Cambricon), measured in H100-equivalents, with an exponential trend fitted to capacity added each quarter.

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