GTC Nvidia chief exec Jen-Hsun Huang sees the computer industry on the cusp of radical changes. And with his company now about 65 per cent devoted to parallel computing, you can easily guess which technology he believes will drive that transformation — and which company he believes will lose.
“Whatever capability you think you have today, it’s nothing compared to what you’re going to have in a couple years,” he told the assembled multitude at a “Fireside Chat” Thursday morning at the GPU Technology Conference in San José, California.
That capability will be provided by parallel computing — or, as he told his keynote audience on Tuesday, “parallel computing, GPU computing, accelerated computing, heterogeneous computing — however you guys want to describe it.”
Key to the transformation, in Huang’s view, will be supercomputers up in the cloud, responding to queries from personal clients.
Although “cloud” is the buzzword du jour, in Huang’s view you ain’t seen nothing yet. “If yo
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