From CNET: Unless you're a gamer eager for the fastest graphics, you might not have the faintest idea of what chip designer Nvidia does. But its processors, including a host of new models announced Tuesday at its GTC event, are the brains in a broadening collection of digital products like AI services, autonomous vehicles and the nascent metaverse.
At the show, Nvidia announced its new H100 AI processor, a successor to the A100 that's used today for training artificial intelligence systems to do things like translate human speech, recognize what's in photos and plot a self-driving car's route through traffic.
It's the highest-end member of the family of graphics processing units that propelled Nvidia to business success. With the company's NVLink high-speed communication pathway, customers can also link as many as 256 H100 chips to each other into "essentially one mind-blowing GPU," Chief Executive Jensen Huang said at the online conference.
The A100 is based on a design called Hopper, and it can be paired with Nvidia's new central processing unit, called Grace, Nvidia said at its GPU Technology Conference. The names are an homage to computing pioneer Grace Hopper, who worked on some of the world's earliest computers, invented the crucial programming tool called the compiler, codeveloped the COBOL programming language and coined the term "bug."
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