Nvidia: Latest news and insights

Why is the DOJ investigating Nvidia?

September 11, 2024: After a stock sell-off following its quarterly earnings report, Nvidia’s pain was aggravated by news that the Department of Justice is escalating its investigation into the company for anticompetitive practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the DOJ sent a subpoena to Nvidia as part of a probe into alleged antitrust practices.

Can Intel’s new chips compete with Nvidia in the AI universe?

June 9, 2024: Intel is aiming its next-generation X86 processors at AI tasks, even though the chips won’t actually run AI workloads themselves.mAt Computex, Intel announced its Xeon 6 processor line, talking up what it calls Efficient-cores (E-cores) that it said will deliver up to 4.2 times the performance of Xeon 5 processors. The first Xeon 6 CPU is the Sierra Forest version (6700 series) a more performance-oriented line, Granite Rapids with Performance cores (P-cores or 6900 series), will be released next quarter.

Everyone but Nvidia joins forces for new AI interconnect

May 30, 2024: A clear sign of Nvidia’s dominance is when Intel and AMD link arms to deliver a competing product. That’s what happened when AMD and Intel – along with Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Meta and Microsoft – formed the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group to develop high-speed interconnections between AI processors.

Nvidia to build supercomputer for federal AI research

May 15, 2024: The U.S. government will use an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to provide researchers and developers access to much more computing power than they have had in the past to produce generative AI advances in areas such as climate science, healthcare and cybersecurity.

Nvidia, Google Cloud team to boost AI startups

April 11, 2024: Alphabet’s Google Cloud unveiled a slew of new products and services at Google Cloud Next 2024, among them a program to help startups and small businesses build generative AI applications and services. The initiative brings together the Nvidia Inception program for startups and the Google for Startups Cloud Program.

Nvidia GTC 2024 wrap-up: Blackwell not the only big news

March 29, 2024: Nvidia’s GDC is in our rearview mirror, and there was plenty of news beyond the major announcement of the Blackwell architecture and the massive new DGX systems powered by it. Here’s a rundown of some of the announcements you might have missed.