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Late last year MINISFORUM introduced a small workstation-class computer called the MINISFORUM MS-01 featuring support for up to an Intel Core i9-13900H processor, a PCIe x16 slot for a half-height graphics card, and support for 10 GbE and 2.5GbE wired network connections. It’s currently available for $399 and up. Now it looks like MINISFORUM has a […]
“Generative AI is reshaping industries and opening new opportunities for innovation and growth,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in an address ahead of this week’s COMPUTEX technology conference in Taipei.
“Today, we’re at the cusp of a major shift in computing,” Huang told the audience, clad in his trademark black leather jacket. “The intersection of AI and accelerated computing is set to redefine the future.”
Huang spoke ahead of one of the world’s premier technology conferences to an
“Generative AI is reshaping industries and opening new opportunities for innovation and growth,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in an address ahead of this week’s COMPUTEX technology conference in Taipei.
“Today, we’re at the cusp of a major shift in computing,” Huang told the audience, clad in his trademark black leather jacket. “The intersection of AI and accelerated computing is set to redefine the future.”
Huang spoke ahead of one of the world’s premier technology conferences to an audience of more than 6,500 industry leaders, press, entrepreneurs, gamers, creators and AI enthusiasts gathered at the glass-domed National Taiwan University Sports Center set in the verdant heart of Taipei.
The theme: NVIDIA accelerated platforms are in full production, whether through AI PCs and consumer devices featuring a host of NVIDIA RTX-powered capabilities or enterprises building and deploying AI factories with NVIDIA’s full-stack computing platform.
“The future of computing is accelerated,” Huang said. “With our innovations in AI and accelerated computing, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and driving the next wave of technological advancement.”
‘One-Year Rhythm’
More’s coming, with Huang revealing a roadmap for new semiconductors that will arrive on a one-year rhythm. Revealed for the first time, the Rubin platform will succeed the upcoming Blackwell platform, featuring new GPUs, a new Arm-based CPU — Vera — and advanced networking with NVLink 6, CX9 SuperNIC and the X1600 converged InfiniBand/Ethernet switch.
“Our company has a one-year rhythm. Our basic philosophy is very simple: build the entire data center scale, disaggregate and sell to you parts on a one-year rhythm, and push everything to technology limits,” Huang explained.
NVIDIA’s creative team used AI tools from members of the NVIDIA Inception startup program, built on NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, to create the COMPUTEX keynote. Packed with demos, this showcase highlighted these innovative tools and the transformative impact of NVIDIA’s technology.
‘Accelerated Computing Is Sustainable Computing’
NVIDIA is driving down the cost of turning data into intelligence, Huang explained as he began his talk.
“Accelerated computing is sustainable computing,” he emphasized, outlining how the combination of GPUs and CPUs can deliver up to a 100x speedup while only increasing power consumption by a factor of three, achieving 25x more performance per Watt over CPUs alone.
“The more you buy, the more you save,” Huang noted, highlighting this approach’s significant cost and energy savings.
Industry Joins NVIDIA to Build AI Factories to Power New Industrial Revolution
Leading computer manufacturers, particularly from Taiwan, the global IT hub, have embraced NVIDIA GPUs and networking solutions. Top companies include ASRock Rack, ASUS, GIGABYTE, Ingrasys, Inventec, Pegatron, QCT, Supermicro, Wistron and Wiwynn, which are creating cloud, on-premises and edge AI systems.
The NVIDIA MGX modular reference design platform now supports Blackwell, including the GB200 NVL2 platform, designed for optimal performance in large language model inference, retrieval-augmented generation and data processing.
AMD and Intel are supporting the MGX architecture with plans to deliver, for the first time, their own CPU host processor module designs. Any server system builder can use these reference designs to save development time while ensuring consistency in design and performance.
Next-Generation Networking with Spectrum-X
In networking, Huang unveiled plans for the annual release of Spectrum-X products to cater to the growing demand for high-performance Ethernet networking for AI.
NVIDIA Spectrum-X, the first Ethernet fabric built for AI, enhances network performance by 1.6x more than traditional Ethernet fabrics. It accelerates the processing, analysis and execution of AI workloads and, in turn, the development and deployment of AI solutions.
CoreWeave, GMO Internet Group, Lambda, Scaleway, STPX Global and Yotta are among the first AI cloud service providers embracing Spectrum-X to bring extreme networking performance to their AI infrastructures.
NVIDIA NIM to Transform Millions Into Gen AI Developers
With NVIDIA NIM, the world’s 28 million developers can now easily create generative AI applications. NIM — inference microservices that provide models as optimized containers — can be deployed on clouds, data centers or workstations.
NIM also enables enterprises to maximize their infrastructure investments. For example, running Meta Llama 3-8B in a NIM produces up to 3x more generative AI tokens on accelerated infrastructure than without NIM.
Nearly 200 technology partners — including Cadence, Cloudera, Cohesity, DataStax, NetApp, Scale AI, and Synopsys — are integrating NIM into their platforms to speed generative AI deployments for domain-specific applications, such as copilots, code assistants, digital human avatars and more. Hugging Face is now offering NIM — starting with Meta Llama 3.
“Today we just posted up in Hugging Face the Llama 3 fully optimized, it’s available there for you to try. You can even take it with you,” Huang said. “So you could run it in the cloud, run it in any cloud, download this container, put it into your own data center, and you can host it to make it available for your customers.”
NVIDIA Brings AI Assistants to Life With GeForce RTX AI PCs
NVIDIA’s RTX AI PCs, powered by RTX technologies, are set to revolutionize consumer experiences with over 200 RTX AI laptops and more than 500 AI-powered apps and games.
And Microsoft and NVIDIA are collaborating to help developers bring new generative AI capabilities to their Windows native and web apps with easy API access to RTX-accelerated SLMs that enable RAG capabilities that run on-device as part of Windows Copilot Runtime.
NVIDIA Robotics Adopted by Industry Leaders
NVIDIA is spearheading the $50 trillion industrial digitization shift, with sectors embracing autonomous operations and digital twins — virtual models that enhance efficiency and cut costs. Through its Developer Program, NVIDIA offers access to NIM, fostering AI innovation.
Taiwanese manufacturers are transforming their factories using NVIDIA’s technology, with Huang showcasing Foxconn’s use of NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac and Metropolis to create digital twins, combining vision AI and robot development tools for enhanced robotic facilities.
“The next wave of AI is physical AI. AI that understands the laws of physics, AI that can work among us,” Huang said, emphasizing the importance of robotics and AI in future developments.
The NVIDIA Isaac platform provides a robust toolkit for developers to build AI robots, including AMRs, industrial arms and humanoids, powered by AI models and supercomputers like Jetson Orin and Thor.
“Robotics is here. Physical AI is here. This is not science fiction, and it’s being used all over Taiwan. It’s just really, really exciting,” Huang added.
Global electronics giants are integrating NVIDIA’s autonomous robotics into their factories, leveraging simulation in Omniverse to test and validate this new wave of AI for the physical world. This includes over 5 million preprogrammed robots worldwide.
“All the factories will be robotic. The factories will orchestrate robots, and those robots will be building products that are robotic,” Huang explained.
Huang emphasized NVIDIA Isaac’s role in boosting factory and warehouse efficiency, with global leaders like BYD Electronics, Siemens, Teradyne Robotics and Intrinsic adopting its advanced libraries and AI models.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise on the IGX platform, with partners like ADLINK, Advantech and ONYX, delivers edge AI solutions meeting strict regulatory standards, essential for medical technology and other industries.
Huang ended his keynote on the same note he began it on, paying tribute to Taiwan and NVIDIA’s many partners there. “Thank you,” Huang said. “I love you guys.”
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Building on more than a dozen years of stacking wins at the COMPUTEX trade show’s annual Best Choice Awards, NVIDIA was today honored with BCAs for its latest technologies.
The NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip won the Computer and System Category Award; the NVIDIA Spectrum-X AI Ethernet networking platform won the Networking and Communication Category Award; and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform won a Golden Award.
The awards — judged on the functionality, innovation and market poten
Building on more than a dozen years of stacking wins at the COMPUTEX trade show’s annual Best Choice Awards, NVIDIA was today honored with BCAs for its latest technologies.
The awards — judged on the functionality, innovation and market potential of products exhibited at the leading computer and technology expo — were announced ahead of the show, which runs from June 4-7, in Taipei.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a COMPUTEX keynote address on Sunday, June 2, at 7 p.m. Taiwan time, at the NTU Sports Center and online.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise Takes Gold
NVIDIA AI Enterprise — a cloud-native software platform that streamlines the development and deployment of copilots and other generative AI applications — won a Golden Award.
The platform lifts the burden of maintaining and securing complex AI software, so businesses can focus on building and harnessing the technology’s game-changing insights.
Microservices that come with NVIDIA AI Enterprise — including NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA CUDA-X — optimize model performance and run anywhere with enterprise-grade security, support and stability, offering users a smooth transition from prototype to production.
Plus, the platform’s ability to improve AI performance results in better overall utilization of computing resources. This means companies using NVIDIA AI Enterprise need fewer servers to support the same workloads, greatly reducing their energy costs and data center footprint.
More BCA Wins for NVIDIA Technologies
NVIDIA GH200 and Spectrum-X were named best in their respective categories.
The NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip is the world’s first truly heterogeneous accelerated platform for AI and high-performance computing workloads. It combines the power-efficient NVIDIA Grace CPU with an NVIDIA Hopper architecture-based GPU over a high-bandwidth 900GB/s coherent NVIDIA NVLink chip-to-chip interconnect.
The Spectrum-X platform, featuring NVIDIA Spectrum SN5600 switches and NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNICs, is the world’s first Ethernet fabric built for AI, accelerating generative AI network performance 1.6x over traditional Ethernet fabrics.
It can serve as the backend AI fabric for any AI cloud or large enterprise deployment, and is available from major server manufacturers as part of the full NVIDIA AI stack.
NVIDIA Partners Recognized
Other BCA winners include NVIDIA partners Acer, ASUS, MSI and YUAN, which were given Golden Awards for their respective laptops, gaming motherboards and smart-city applications — all powered by NVIDIA technologies, such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs, the NVIDIA Studio platform for creative workflows and the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics.
ASUS also won a Computer and System Category Award, while MSI won a Gaming and Entertainment Category Award.
Learn more about the latest generative AI, HPC and networking technologies by joining NVIDIA at COMPUTEX.