Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faced a number of questions regarding Uber’s recent self-driving test vehicle accident, in which an SUV equipped with Uber’s autonomous technology struck and killed 49-year old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. Earlier on Tuesday, Reuters broke the news that Nvidia was suspending its own autonomous testing programs around the world. Huang […]
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Nvidia CEO comments on GPU shortage caused by Ethereum
There’s currently a shortage of Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia’s CEO pointed to Ethereum distributed ledgers as the cause. Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference he spoke to a group of journalists following his keynote address and addressed the shortage. Huang simply stated that Nvidia is not in the business of cryptocurrency or distributed ledgers. As such, […]
View More Nvidia CEO comments on GPU shortage caused by EthereumNvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual reality
Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference the company unveiled a wild technology demo and it’s straight out of Black Panther. Simply put, a driver using virtual reality was remotely controlling a car in real life. “He’s not with us,” Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said pointing the driver on the stage. “He’s looking at this virtual […]
View More Nvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual realityNvidia previews next-generation Drive Orin self-driving computer
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed a forthcoming generation of the company’s self-driving Drive PX supercomputers for use in vehicles – the successor to the current Drive Pegasus, which will be called the Drive Orin and which will use essentially two Drive Pegasus computers combined into one, much smaller packages. This should ramp up the self-driving […]
View More Nvidia previews next-generation Drive Orin self-driving computerNvidia’s self-driving car tests suspended following fatal Uber crash
Following the fatal crash during an Uber self-driving car test last week, autonomous vehicle hardware and software supplier Nvidia has announced it’s suspending its own self-driving vehicle tests.
The chipmaker currently partners with Uber, Tesla, Vo…
Nvidia suspends all autonomous vehicle testing
Nvidia is temporarily stopping testing of its autonomous vehicle platform in response to last week’s fatal collision of a self-driving Uber car with a pedestrian. TechCrunch confirmed this with the company.
View More Nvidia suspends all autonomous vehicle testingUdacity debuts a dedicated School of AI with three new nanodegrees
Udacity is intruding three dedicated new nanodegrees (its own accelerated learning program) in the field of artificial intelligence, which will become part of its new School of AI. AI has been a subject Udacity has taught nearly since its inception, beginning over five years ago, and the field has changed a lot since. It’s seen […]
View More Udacity debuts a dedicated School of AI with three new nanodegreesTPCast unveils adapter to enable multiple wireless HTC Vive VR headsets
Late last year, TPCast announced an adapter that cut the HTC Vive cords. The company is back with an enterprise version that delivers 2k content to several HTC Vive units with sub 2ms latency. Unveiled at Nvidia’s GTC 2019 conference in San Jose, California, the product is aimed at VR uses cases where multiple people […]
View More TPCast unveils adapter to enable multiple wireless HTC Vive VR headsetsNvidia looks to the AI future
It’s about making the lives of scientists and researchers easier, Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia tells TechCrunch. He’s speaking of the keynote address he intends to give at the company’s upcoming GTC conference. Held in San Jose, miles away from the company’s new imposing headquarters, Nvidia is set to host thousands of attendees […]
View More Nvidia looks to the AI futureThe red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems
Another massive financing round for an AI chip company is coming in today, this time for SambaNova Systems — a startup founded by a pair of Stanford professors and a longtime chip company executive — to build out the next generation of hardware to supercharge AI-centric operations. SambaNova joins an already quite large class of […]
View More The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova SystemsNvidia is creating surveillance cameras with built-in face recognition. Uh, great?
Nvidia has partnered with AI developer AnyVision to create facial recognition technology for “smart cities” around the world. The two companies will work to install automatic facial recognition into CCTV (closed-circuit television) surveillance camer…
View More Nvidia is creating surveillance cameras with built-in face recognition. Uh, great?Nvidia up 10% after Q4 earnings beat, says cryptocurrency demand ‘exceeded expectations’
Nvidia’s successes are continuing to pile on as the company’s gaming and data center businesses drove revenues up 34 percent year-over-year. Nvidia shares were up around 10 percent after-hours following the company’s release of its fourth-quarter earnings report. The company reported EPS of $1.78 on revenue of $2.91 billion, beating analyst expectations of $1.17 per share… Read More