Update: March 18, 17:57 ET: Huang brings orange and green Star Wars BD droids from Disney to the stage to finish his speech. The robots on stage are powered by Nvidia’s Jetson systemHuang said.
Update: March 18, 17:47 ET: Huang announces that Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD is rolling out its next-generation computer, Thor.
Update: March 18, 5:45 p.m. ET: Huang announces Nvidia Omniverse now streams to Apple Vision Pro.
Update: March 18, 5:30 p.m. ET: Huang announces that Nvidia’s AI foundry is working with SAP, ServiceNow and Snowflake. He also named Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell in the audience. “No one is better at building end-to-end systems at very gigantic scale for enterprises than Dell,” Huang said. “Every company will have to build artificial intelligence factories. And it turns out Michael is here and will be ecstatic to take your order.”
Update: March 18, 5:11 p.m. ET: Huang announces that Nvidia is creating a digital twin of the Earth to predict weather patterns using CorrDiff, Nvidia’s fresh generative artificial intelligence model that is capable of generating images with 12.5 times higher resolution than current models.
Update: March 18, 4:40 p.m. ET: A fragile moment on stage.
Update: March 18, 16:31 ET: Huang is introducing the public to the next-generation Blackwell chip, named after mathematician David Blackwell, who is also the first black scientist admitted to the National Academy of Sciences.
Blackwell is a fresh processor design with 208 billion transistors that will be able to handle AI models and queries faster than previous designs. With their debut, Blackwell chips will be the successors of Nvidia chips H100 chip wanted, named after computer scientist Grace Hopper. Hopper is “the most advanced GPU in the world currently in production,” Huang said.
Huang said Google, Oracle and Microsoft are among the technology companies preparing for Blackwell.
Update: March 18, 16:17 ET: Huang announces fresh Nvidia partnerships with computer software makers Cadence, Ansys and Synopsys. Huang said Cadence is building a supercomputer with Nvidia GPUs.
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Among others, a giant involved in the production of AI chips Nvidia unveiling is expected completely fresh chip at its flagship annual event this week.
CEO Jensen Huang will take the stage at chipmaker’s GPU technology conference (or GTC) to deliver the keynote address on Monday. There, Huang is expected to announce the company’s next-generation H100 chip, the B100, which This is said to be Nvidia’s first multi-processor chipMeaning a gigantic project divided into smaller parts. If this happens, the chip is expected to be even more powerful than its predecessor.
Time will tell whether the chip will be revealed – and what it will be able to do.
Stay tuned for live updates as Huang’s talk begins at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET) and lasts approximately two hours.
