A little more than a year ago, autonomous trucking startup TuSimple —flush with a fresh round of venture capital — was preparing to scale up its testing to two full truck fleets in China and the U.S. TuSimple, a China-based company with an R&D facility in San Diego and test operations in Tucson, has put that […]
View More Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple is taking 3 to 5 commercial trips a dayCategory: nvidia
Acer’s launches new high-end gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 2080 GPUs
Acer today announced two new gaming laptops at CES, the 17-inch $4,000 Predator Triton 900 with a convertible 4K display and the somewhat more affordable all-metal 15-inch $1,800 Triton 500. What sets these laptops apart is, among a few other interesting features and some interesting design choices, support for Nvidia’s new(ish) RTX 2080 GPUs, the […]
View More Acer’s launches new high-end gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 2080 GPUsNvidia launches the $349 GeForce RTX 2060
At its CES press conference today, Nvidia broke with tradition and put the focus on gaming, not self-driving cars and data center AI technologies, the typical topics of this event. After a (far too long) recap of everything Nvidia announced the RTX 2060, the low-end version of its new Turing-based desktop graphics cards. The new […]
View More Nvidia launches the $349 GeForce RTX 2060Watch Nvidia’s CES press conference live right here
Nvidia is holding its CES press conference today at 8 PM Pacific, 11 PM Eastern. The company will talk about self-driving cars and all things GPUs. It’s a great way to see what’s ahead for Nvidia. We’ll have a team on the ground, so you should also check out our full CES coverage.
View More Watch Nvidia’s CES press conference live right hereHP releases a monster $5k, 65-inch gaming display
The HP Omen X Emperium is not meant to watch reruns of The Office. Though it can. This display is one of the first in Nvidia’s family of Big Format Gaming Displays. Unlike traditional large displays, these are certified by Nvidia and are said to deliver the best gaming experience through the smoothest motion. This […]
View More HP releases a monster $5k, 65-inch gaming displayWith today’s IPO sinking, a year of highs and lows for SoftBank
If there was a word that dominated startup and tech news coverage this year, it was SoftBank. The Japanese telecom conglomerate’s Vision Fund pushed out a prodigious amount of capital this year — quite literally billions of dollars — into companies as diverse as a molecular manufacturer (Zymergen) and a robotic pizza delivery business (Zume Pizza). […]
View More With today’s IPO sinking, a year of highs and lows for SoftBankThese people aren’t real. Can you tell?
The image above looks like a collage of photographs, but in fact, it’s been generated by an artificial intelligence. And as real as they may look, the people in the image aren’t actual humans.
In a new paper (via The Verge), a group of Nvidia’s…
Nvidia’s limited China connections
Another round of followups on Nvidia, and then some short news analysis. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms. This is a rough draft of something new – provide your feedback directly to the author (Danny at danny@techcrunch.com) if you like or hate something here. Nvidia / TSMC questions Following up on my analyses this […]
View More Nvidia’s limited China connectionsOn stock prices and Nvidia
Yesterday’s analysis of Nvidia’s challneges triggered a surge of mail from readers. The company has lost about half of its value over the past two months, and has mostly blamed a “crypto hangover” for the problem. But as I pointed yesterday, it’s really the three Cs: “Crypto, customers, and China.” There are nuances here worth […]
View More On stock prices and NvidiaAfter losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
Nvidia is a company that has reached the highest highs and the lowest lows, all in the span of a couple of weeks. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms. This is a rough draft of something new – provide your feedback directly to the author (Danny at danny@techcrunch.com) if you like or hate something […]
View More After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoningLucas Di Grassi says human drivers are the real competitors for Roborace
As Roborace accelerates its plans to build an autonomous racing league, the company is finding that its toughest competition are still human drivers. In this version of the John Henry story, the humans clearly are still winning, but the robots are catching up. “We’re going to call it a singularity event when an autonomous racing […]
View More Lucas Di Grassi says human drivers are the real competitors for RoboraceCryptocurrency chill causes mining speculator Nvidia’s stock to plunge
The cryptocurrency market is an exciting one, but it’s also unpredictable — and when things go south, they take related businesses with them. Nvidia, a hardware giant that has been riding the cryptocurrency wave, saw its stock price take a double-digit hit as it reported vanishing demand for GPUs specializing in crypto-mining.
View More Cryptocurrency chill causes mining speculator Nvidia’s stock to plunge