Nvidia patents power board that feeds GPUs directly in servers
Nvidia describes a circuit board design for data center servers that converts high-voltage electricity into the lower voltage needed by graphics processing units (GPUs). The board includes a built-in converter and direct connectors to send power straight to the chips, reducing the need for separate power components.
In the filing’s own words
Power supply and distribution architectures, e.g., for supplying and distributing power to a GPU accelerator array of a data center server. In at least one embodiment, a power supply and distribution architecture includes a power distribution board having both a power converter for converting a supply voltage of a power supply to an operating voltage of a GPU and a GPU power connector for transmitting power to the GPU at the operating voltage.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A power distribution board (PDB), the PDB comprising: a supply input unit to receive power at a supply voltage; a power converter to convert the power received at a supply voltage to an operating voltage of a graphics processing unit (GPU); and one or more GPU power connectors to provide power directly to one or more GPUs at the operating voltage.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- POWER DISTRIBUTION ARCHITECTURE FOR GPU ACCELERATOR ARRAY SYSTEMS
- Publication number
- US20260310271A1
- Application number
- 19170186
- Filed
- Apr 4, 2025
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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