Tag Archives: Nvidia

The introduction of the Blackwell platform generated a lot of interest but also some searching questions. Electronics Weekly spoke to Keith Townsend, global technology advisor for the Futurum Group who reflected on Nvidia‘s announcement of its Blackwell platform and its leap in performance. “These are intriguing times,” he said. The announcement of Blackwell makes for interesting conversation around scale. Blackwell ...

We're talking Nvidia NIMs (Nvidia Inference Microservices) for healthcare, AI, South Korean AI startups, researchers working on Diamond CMOS, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

For example, what caught our editor's eye was the new Nvidia Blackwell GPU sharing the Hopper architecture but ramping up performance. We're talking AI, of course...

Optimised packages of AI models and workflows with API have been packaged as NIMs (Nvidia Inference Microservices) which developers can use as building blocks to develop generative AI for healthcare, from drug discovery, med-tech and digital health products. Nvidia announced 25 NIMs at its developer conference, GTC 2024, offering advanced imaging, natural language and speech recognition, digital biology generation, prediction ...

Custom vision-based AI software created on Nvidia’s Tao tool set can be run on Arm based Cortex-M, Cortex-A and Ethos-U microcontrollers according to Edge Impulse, which teamed up with Nvidia to create the work-flow. “Engineers can create computer vision models that can be deployed to hardware including NXP I.MXRT1170, Alif E3, STMicro STM32H747AI and Renesas CK-RA8D1,” according to Edge Impulse. ...

Saudi Arabia plans to invest in AI with an investment plan estimated to be around $40bn, according to a report in the New York Times. The announcement was made in the same week as Nvidia held its developer conference in San Jose, California, which it billed as a conference “for the era of AI”. This one of the world’s most ...

JEDEC has published a GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard, JESD239, to improve memory performance in applications such as AI, graphics, gaming. Specifically, the standards body has announced the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. Described as a groundbreaking new memory standard, JESD239 GDDR7 offers double the bandwidth over GDDR6, reaching up to 192 GB/s per device. JEDEC highlights ...

A new take on the concept of digital twins was announced by Nvidia at its developer conference in San Jose this week, as founder and CEO, Jensen Huang announced that the company’s Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs (application programming interfaces). Customers will be able to use these APIs to design, simulate, test and build physically based digital twins ...

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts - their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye...