At the recent Computex trade show in Taiwan, Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, unveiled forthcoming tools and services designed to bring artificial intelligence computing to a broader market. Huang expressed his belief that this is contributing to a modern industrial revolution. Currently, Nvidia is revered for its AI accelerator chips, widely used in data centres.
In his speech at the National Taiwan University, Huang depicted Nvidia’s aspirations to expand in the new sector of AI personal computers. With a large chunk of their sales deriving from a small slice of cloud-computing powerhouses, the company’s aim is to diversify their customer base. Huang anticipates industries and government organisations ranging from ship building to pharmaceutical developing will embrace AI. He reiterated themes from the previous year’s conference, emphasising the importance of AI capabilities as a determinant of success.
Huang discussed the surge in “computation inflation,” alluding to the overwhelming growth of data that needs processing which conventional approaches fail to keep pace with. He advocated for Nvidia’s accelerated computing style as a solution to efficiently manage this, despite his “CEO math” being inexact, he claimed it evidenced a 98% reduction in costs and 97% lesser energy demand.
Nvidia, originally a gaming card seller for desktop PCs, intends to utilise this experience as PC producers strive to incorporate more AI features in their machines. Microsoft and its hardware collaborators displayed their new laptops, boosted with AI features, and named Copilot+ at Computex. Nvidia promoted its graphic cards as a significant upgrade for these machines, improving their performance immensely and offering additional features to common software like video games.
To support software developers to incorporate new AI functionality to PCs, Nvidia plans to provide tools and pre-trained AI models. These will undertake complex tasks, such as determining whether to process data on the machine or transmit it to a data centre via the internet.
In a distinct development, Nvidia is unveiling a fresh design for server computers, based on its own chips. The MGX scheme, utilised by firms including Hewlett Packard and Dell, expedites their market entry with products intended for business use and governmental bodies. Even competitors such as Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are capitalising on this design, integrating their server processors with Nvidia chips. – Bloomberg