14.05.2020 NVIDIA Daily Analysis

14.05.2020 NVIDIA Daily Analysis

On Thursday, Nvidia Corp. launched its newest line of chips detailing the artificial intelligence capabilities up to 20 times greater than the previous products, as well as the new offerings are working to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kitchen of Chief Executive Jensen Huang's house was filmed -- split into six different "episodes" -- Huang planned to introduce Ampere, the newest architecture for Nvidia's signature graphics- processing units, or GPUs. "Unquestionably, it's the first time that we've unified the acceleration workload of the entire data center into one single platform", Huang said. Ampere, a 7-nanometer processor that holds more than 54 billion transistors, takes the idea of parallel processing and multiplies it — each individual A100 GPU, the first launched with Ampere, can be partitioned to run up to seven different actions or dedicated to a single need, Huang said. The company has bundled eight of those GPUs together into the DGX A100, which can handle up to 56 tasks at once or be combined into one large task, and reach up to 5 petaflops of AI performance. “The compute power of the new DGX A100 systems coming to Argonne will help researchers explore treatments and vaccines and study the spread of the virus, enabling scientists to do years’ worth of AI-accelerated work in months or days,” Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences at Argonne, said in a news release. Nvidia (NVDA) is trading at $314.50, going up $3.30, or by 1.06%.