Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, stated that the world is at “the tipping point of a new computer era” as he unveiled several AI-related products at a Taiwan tech trade show. The US firm, known for creating graphics chips for gamers, has become a central ingredient to the generative AI revolution. Its chips deliver the computing heft needed to churn out complex content in just seconds from data centers worldwide.
Nvidia’s value surged to nearly $1 trillion after the company’s quarterly earnings report surpassed expectations, with its shares rising by over 25% due to the AI trend fueling demand for its sophisticated chips. The Taiwanese-American CEO expressed his excitement to be back at the Computex forum, one of the largest trade shows for the sector.
New AI Supercomputer Platform and Its Benefits
Huang’s two-hour presentation introduced a dizzying host of new products, including an AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200, which he said is now “in full production.” Huang also announced that Google Cloud, Meta, and Microsoft would be the first companies in the world to have access to the platform and would be doing exploratory research on the pioneering front of artificial intelligence with Nvidia.
The new DGX GH200 supercomputer will theoretically help the tech industry create more AI-related products that require more complex computing tasks. This is one of the first major times in history a new computing model has been developed and created. According to Huang, accelerated computing has now reached the tipping point of a new computing era.
The Rise of Nvidia
Nvidia was founded 30 years ago by Huang and was initially a star in the video game world. The Silicon Valley-based company has since built its reputation on making graphics processing units (GPUs), which ramp up image quality and vanquish response lag time for gamers.
The company’s chips have become engines for the kind of complex processes involved in artificial intelligence, known as accelerated computing. Nvidia’s chips are coveted in the AI boom and have helped the company’s value surge. Nvidia’s CEO believes that the company has reached a new milestone in computing and is excited to see what the future holds.
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