NVIDIA’s graphics technology is useful for a lot more than just lining up pixels on gamer’s monitors, and in a presentation at the GPU Technology Conference, CEO Jensen Huang revealed a few more layers of its plans. The Jetson Xavier platform unveiled earlier this year for autonomous robots and cars is rolling out, and now […]
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Nvidia unveils real-time ray tracing Turing graphics architecture
Nvidia said it “reinvented computer graphics” with the unveiling of its Nvidia Turing graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. The architecture will be the foundation for a whole family of future graphics chips that will focus on real-time ray tracing, or highly realistic, physically accurate graphics. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, s…Read More
Nvidia will ship its first ray-tracing Quadro graphics chip in Q4
Nvidia announced its first graphics chips that take advantage of its new Turing-based computer graphics architecture, the Quadro RTX series. The new chips for workstations enable real-time ray tracing, a rendering technique that traces the paths of rays of light to create highly realistic animations that can power games and other interactive animat…Read More
NVIDIA wants to power intelligent robots with Jetson Xavier
NVIDIA is hoping to play a bigger role in the future of robotics with its Isaac platform, powered by the new Jetson Xavier system-on-a-chip. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because it’s relying on the same the processor from the Xavier Drive self-driving SOC. The Xavier is over twenty times faster than the existing Jetson […]
Switch, PC, and crypto all lead to booming growth for Nvidia
Nvidia just reported record quarterly revenue of $ 3.21 billion for the three-month period that ended April 29. That is up 66 percent year-over-year from $ 1.94 billion. Increased demand for GPU-based artificial intelligence is one of the key factors driving Nvidia’s growth, but the company also saw huge jumps in spending in its gaming […]
You can buy NVIDIA GeForce GTX cards for not-insane prices again
Fortnite builders, Overwatch heroes and PUBG squads might soon play those games with extra clarity if they’ve been clamoring for a new NVIDIA graphics card. Low availability and high prices recently made the 10-series GeForce GTX GPUs hard to come by. However, the cards are back in stock on NVIDIA’s site and at retailers, with […]
Nvidia halts self-driving tests; Uber drops test permit in California
Chipmaker Nvidia Corp said on Tuesday it has suspended self-driving tests across the globe, a week after an Uber Technologies Inc autonomous vehicle struck and killed a woman crossing a street in Arizona. Uber is one of Nvidia’s partners and uses some of its self-driving technology. Nvidia’s shares closed down 7.8 percent at $ 225.52, […]
Nvidia Inception highlights 4 AI startups for enterprise applications
Nvidia is tracking more than 2,800 companies through its Inception program, which was created to identify the best artificial intelligence startups. It does so to find investment opportunities, but the world’s biggest standalone maker of graphics processing units (GPUs) also knows that these startups will use its technology for AI computing.…Read More
Nvidia Inception identifies the top 4 AI startups for autonomous systems
Nvidia created its Inception program to identify the best artificial intelligence startups — those that will change the world and tap the computing power of Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GPU) and AI processors. To that end, the company created a contest with a $ 1 million prize pool and entertained pitches from more than 200 […]
Nvidia CEO: Cryptocurrency mining drove a spike in graphics-chip sales
Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter that ended on January 31. The company said it’s earning non-GAAP revenues of $ 1.72 a share on revenues of $ 2.91 billion. Analysts had expected $ 1.16 a share on revenue of $ 2.68 billion. It makes you wonder if all of those rumors about […]