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Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the COMPUTEX Forum on May 29, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan. (Reuters)
Nvidia becomes world’s most valuable listed semiconductor company as major supplier of chips
Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang on Monday hailed the end of the “digital divide”, saying artificial intelligence means everyone can now be a computer programmer, as all they need to do is talk to a computer.
Nvidia has become the world’s most valuable listed semiconductor company as a leading supplier of chips and computing systems for artificial intelligence.
The company last week forecast second-quarter revenue more than 50% above Wall Street estimates and said it was ramping up supply to meet growing demand for its artificial-intelligence chips, which are used in ChatGPT and similar apps. Is done for many services.
Speaking to thousands at the Computex forum in Taipei, Huang, who was born in southern Taiwan before his family immigrated to the United States when he was a child, said AI was leading a computing revolution. Was.
“There is no question that we are in a new computing era,” he said in a speech, occasionally venturing into Mandarin or Taiwanese to the delight of the crowd.
“In every single era of computing, you can do different things that weren’t possible before, and artificial intelligence certainly qualifies,” Huang said.
“The programming barrier is incredibly low. We’ve closed the digital divide. Everyone is a programmer now – you just have to say something to the computer,” he said.
“The rate of progress, because it’s so easy to use, is why it’s growing so quickly. It’s touching literally every single industry.”
Nvidia’s chips have helped companies such as Microsoft Corp add human-like chat features to search engines such as Bing.
Huang demonstrated what the AI could do, including a program to compose a short pop song praising Nvidia with a few words of instruction.
He also unveiled a number of new applications, including a partnership with WPP, the world’s largest advertising group, for generating AI-enabled content for digital advertising.
Nvidia is straining to meet demand for its AI chips, with Tesla Inc TSLA.O CEO Elon Musk, who is reportedly building an artificial-intelligence startup, telling an interviewer last week that graphics processing units (GPUs) are “much harder to obtain than drugs”.
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