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Nvidia on Sunday unveiled its next generation of artificial intelligence chips to succeed the previous model, which was announced just months earlier in March.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the new AI chip architecture, dubbed "Rubin," ahead of the COMPUTEX tech conference in Taipei.Rubin comes months after the March announcement of the upcoming "Blackwell" model, which is still in production and expected to ship to customers later in 2024.Huang's announcement of Rubin appears to quicken the company's already-accelerated pace of AI chip advancement.Nvidia has pledged to release new AI chip models on a "one-year rhythm," as Huang put it on Sunday....

Nvidia's Jensen Huang was recently described as a boss who was "not easy to work with" by his employees. But the billionaire CEO seemed unaffected by it. In fact, he welcomed it. He said that the route to doing extraordinary things shouldn't be easy. In an interview on 60 Minutes, the correspondent Bill Whitaker some of the words employees of the leading software company had used to describe Huang: "Demanding, perfectionist, not easy to work for." Responding to this, the 61-year-old said those traits fitted him "perfectly." "It should be like that," he was as quoted saying by the Business...

Graphic chip maker plans to build AI research center in Taiwan while continuing product sale to mainland China By JEFF PAO MAY 31, 2023 Nvidia, a California-based graphic processing unit maker, is going to build a world-class artificial intelligence research center in Taiwan to accelerate its Omniverse project, a computing platform that supports 3D applications. The announcement was made after the United States firm’s share price surged 24.6% to US$380.6 in a single day on May 24. On Tuesday, the valuation of Nvidia hit $1 trillion, making it the first US chipmaker to join the trillion-dollar club. Because of this,...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI has advanced to the point at which it's no longer necessary to prioritize computer science and coding education for the world's youth. Apologies to the past decade of CompSci grads, but your college years would have been better spent gaining expertise in areas like science, manufacturing or farming, Huang declared at the recent World Governments Summit in Dubai. "You probably recall over the course of the last 10, 15 years almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that children learn computer science," Huang explained during a...