NVDA just kicked of the first of its GTC conferences. There were a lot of announcements of new partnerships including 3 press releases:
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China’s Top Server-Builders Adopt NVIDIA AI Design for Cloud Computing: Huawei, Inspur, Lenovo Select NVIDIA Volta HGX Architecture to Build AI Systems for Data Centers
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China’s Top Cloud Providers Adopt NVIDIA Volta GPUs to Supercharge Next-Gen AI Services: Alibaba Cloud, Baidu and Tencent Upgrade Data Centers with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU Accelerators
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NVIDIA TensorRT 3 Dramatically Accelerates AI Inference for Hyperscale Data Centers: Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, JD.com and Hikvision Adopt NVIDIA TensorRT for Programmable Inference Acceleration
In addition, NVDA’s blog has some new stories from yesterday and today:
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NVIDIA Expands Deep Learning Institute AI Training Partnerships in China
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/09/25/tencent-leadtek-dee… -
Alibaba, Huawei Adopt NVIDIA’s Metropolis AI Smart Cities Platform
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/09/25/alibaba-huawei-metr… -
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: JD X Selects NVIDIA for AI Logistics and Delivery (Jetson used in delivery drones and robots)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/09/25/jd-x-jetson/ -
NVIDIA Invests in Chinese Self-Driving Car Startup, JingChi
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/09/25/jingchi-nvidia-gpu-… -
NVIDIA CEO Kicks Off Global GTC Tour, Unveiling AI Tools and Partnerships in China
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/09/25/gtc-china-jensen-hu… -
145 Automotive Startups Around the World Choose NVIDIA DRIVE
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/09/25/auto-startups-nvidi…
There will be more GTC conferences in the coming months, each of which could be a forum to announce new partnerships and progress:
GTC China (Beijing) – Sept. 25-27:
Keynote Sept. 26, 9 am CST
GTC Europe (Munich) – Oct. 10-12:
Keynote Oct. 10, 10 am CEST
GTC Israel (Tel Aviv) – Oct. 18:
Keynote Oct. 18, 10 am IDT
GTC Taiwan – Oct. 26:
Keynote Oct. 26, 10 am CST
GTC DC – Nov. 1-2:
Keynotes Nov. 1 and 2
GTC Japan – Dec. 12-13:
Keynote Dec. 13 at 10 am JST
GTC in Silicon Valley - March 26-29, 2018
Technology is moving fast. AI is proliferating fast and NVDA is at the center of it as the main picks and shovels supplier. I’m not selling any of my shares…
Chris