Innovation and good timing combined to make California's Nvidia the dominant firm for AI computer chips.
Nvidia has about 95% of the GPU market for machine learning, noted a recentFigures show its AI business generated around $15bn in revenue last year, up about 40% from the previous year and overtaking gaming as its largest source of income.late on Wednesday. The company said it was raising production of its chips to meet "surging demand".
Jensen Huang, now the chief executive of Nvidia, was one of its founders back in 1993. Then, Nvidia was focused on making graphics better for gaming and other applications.GPUs excel at processing many small tasks simultaneously - a procedure known as parallel processing. That tool was added to Nvida's computer chips. For computer games players it was a capability they didn't need, and probably weren't even aware of, but for researchers it was a new way of doing high performance computing on consumer hardware.In 2012 Alexnet was unveiled - an AI that could classify images. Alexnet was trained using just two of Nvidia's programmable GPUs.
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