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France’s Le Maire Says Nvidia’s AI Dominance Stifles Competition
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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France’s Le Maire Says Nvidia’s AI Dominance Stifles Competition

[ad_1]  Nvidia Corp.'s dominance in artificial intelligence is causing “growing inequalities” between countries and is stifling fair competition, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned.“Having just one single country with all the technologies, all the private companies, all of the devices, all the skills, would be a failure for all of us,” Le Maire told reporters at the UK's AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, north of London. He said 92% of graphics processing units — AI accelerators — are owned by Nvidia.  We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The European Union is examining alleged anticompetitive abuses in chips used for AI, a market that's dominated by Nvidia Corp, Bloomberg reported in September. The US company's dominant role in supplying chips for artificial intelligence...
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Nvidia’s Top Gamer Graphics Card Caught Up in US-China Trade War
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia’s Top Gamer Graphics Card Caught Up in US-China Trade War

[ad_1]  Chinese gamers now have to pay more than double the list price of Nvidia Corp.'s flagship consumer graphics card after it was caught up in a US technology export ban on its biggest geopolitical rival. Prices for the year-old GeForce RTX 4090, originally listed at $1,599, are now as high as 29,000 yuan ($3,970) on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Taobao marketplace as retailers begin to pull it from their shelves. The RTX 4090 is Nvidia's top-of-the-line GPU and an aspirational item for gamers worldwide, but it's now prohibited to export to China without a US government license after its performance was found to exceed a threshold set by American officials, Nvidia said in a filing this week. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Washington's intent with the curbs is to prevent China...
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VMware, Nvidia target businesses that want their own AI
23Aug By adminNo Comments
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VMware, Nvidia target businesses that want their own AI

[ad_1] VMware Inc on Tuesday said it has developed a new set of software tools in partnership with Nvidia Corp aimed at businesses which want to develop generative artificial intelligence in their own data centers rather than the cloud.VMware, which is close to being acquired by chip firm Broadcom Inc in a $69 billion deal, makes software that corporations use to run their privately owned data centers. For more than two decades, VMware's tools have been used by businesses to divvy up the computing power in central processor chips, which are the brains of traditional servers. On Tuesday, the company released a new set of tools help designed to manage Nvidia chips, which dominate the market for AI systems that can read and write text in human-like ways. Companies like Microsoft Corp, for ...
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Inside China’s underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips
20Jun By adminNo Comments
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Inside China’s underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips

[ad_1] Psst! Where can a Chinese buyer purchase top-end Nvidia AI chips in the wake of U.S. sanctions? Visiting the famed Huaqiangbei electronics area in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is a good bet - in particular, the SEG Plaza skyscraper whose first 10 floors are crammed with shops selling everything from camera parts to drones. The chips are not advertised but asking discreetly works. They don't come cheap. Two vendors there, who spoke with Reuters in person on condition of anonymity, said they could provide small numbers of A100 artificial intelligence chips made by the U.S. chip designer, pricing them at $20,000 a piece - double the usual price. While buying or selling high-end U.S. chips is not illegal in China, U.S. export restrictions have created a de facto undergroun...
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Nvidia, the world’s newest, AI-amped tech giant
2Jun By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia, the world’s newest, AI-amped tech giant

[ad_1] Nvidia, a chip technology company, became a trillion dollar enterprise this week and the world's newest tech giant. Here are a few key facts about the little-known firm.- Decades-old upstart -Nvidia is not an out-of-the-blue startup. Founded in 1993, Nvidia designs chips that are used in the fastest developing sectors of the tech business: gaming, video-editing, self-driving cars and, now, artificial intelligence. Its technology was also in the mix for the crypto boom. "We had this idea that computer graphics was going to be the driving force of technology and [its] fuel would be video games," co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in 2018.Based in California, Nvidia doesn't actually make its own chips, but rather designs them and then outsources the manufacturing to other companie...
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Computex 2023: Intel cedes spotlight at global tech gala to AI darling Nvidia
31May By adminNo Comments
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Computex 2023: Intel cedes spotlight at global tech gala to AI darling Nvidia

[ad_1] When Asia's biggest computing and electronics show kicked off this week, one name was conspicuously absent: Intel Corp. The US chipmaker does not have an official presence at this year's Computex exhibition, an event it once dominated through keynote speeches and an outsized footprint on the show floor. The 2023 edition opened instead with a marathon two-hour showcase by Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, a day before it became the first $1 trillion chipmaker in anticipation of a wave of demand for its artificial intelligence processors.Intel, long synonymous with the fastest processors in the world, has seen its all-purpose chips overshadowed by Nvidia's more specialized, parallel-processing architecture that's superior at speeding up AI workloads. Intel rivals t...
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Nvidia releases software tools to help chatbots watch their language
27Apr By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia releases software tools to help chatbots watch their language

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp, a major supplier of chips and computing systems for artificial intelligence, on Tuesday released a set of software tools aimed at helping chatbots watch their language. Nvidia's chips have helped companies like Microsoft Corp add human-like chat features to search engines like Bing. But the chatbots can still be unpredictable and say things their creators wish they did not. Microsoft in February limited users to five questions per session with its Bing search engine after the New York Times reported the system gave unsettling responses during long conversations. Nvidia's software tools, provided free of charge, are designed to help companies guard against unwanted responses from chatbots. Some of those uses are straightforward - the maker of a customer service chat...
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