Stefan Mileschin

Going faster than last year

Despite the fact that Jensen introduced the Volta architecture and the V100 GPU, the company just managed to ship the first batch of products.

If you have been following Nvidia closely, last year they managed to ship the P100 based cards and systems in late September 2016. Even then Nvidia DGX-1 system packed with eight GPUs and quite speed price of $100,000 was hard to get last year. This year the system packed with eight Volta GPUs is even more expensive.

Nvidia’s secret sauce is the Artificial intelligence short AI. Nvidia realized that there are so many tasks where special accelerators based on a GPU architecture can do much better job compare to a standard CPU multitasking approach.

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