New Nvidia Chips Enable Big Leap in Deep Learning, Virtual Reality

From eWeek: Chipmaker Nvidia made a series of big product announcements here at its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) for developers highlighted by faster graphics chips, a workstation designed to compete with far more expensive supercomputers and a new high-powered server.

A clearly energized CEO Jensen Huang demonstrated during his two-hour keynote how far the company’s products had advanced far beyond the graphics chips where it first made its name.

“Nvidia is an architecture company,” said Huang, noting the company now has 370 partners working on self-driving car systems based on an Nvidia open platform designed to help development of autonomous cars, trucks and taxis.

Huang showed off the new Nvidia Drive Constellation, a computing platform based on two different servers. The first server runs the new Nvidia Drive Sim software that simulates a self-driving vehicle's sensors, including cameras, lidar and radar.

The second server runs the Nvidia Drive Pegasus, a complete autonomous vehicle software stack capable of processing huge amounts of simulated data as if it were coming from the sensors of a car driving on the road through a range of conditions including traffic jams, nighttime road conditions and inclement weather.

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