Hacker News with Generative AI: Nvidia

Top scientist urges China to develop alternative to Nvidia's CUDA software (scmp.com)
US chip giant Nvidia holds a significant advantage with its CUDA computing platform, while OpenAI may be unwise to heavily invest in the “scaling law”, according to a top Chinese scientist addressing two critical issues affecting the future of artificial intelligence (AI) development and US-China technology rivalry.
Artificial Intelligence, China, Technology, Software, Nvidia
4 points by ksec 10 days ago | 0 comments
Efficient Code Search with Nvidia DGX (nvidia.com)
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled AI tools that help you write more code faster, but as we ask these tools to take on more and more complex tasks, there are limitations that become apparent.
AI, Code Search, Nvidia
24 points by simplesort 14 days ago | 1 comments
AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency, MI450X Chance to Beat Nvidia, Nvidia's New Moat (semianalysis.com)
Ever since SemiAnalysis published an article in December 2024 detailing mediocre AMD software and the lack of usability, AMD has kicked into a higher gear and has made rapid progress in the past four months on many items we laid out.
AMD, Nvidia, Semiconductors, Software, Competition
7 points by elorant 15 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia HGX B300 NVL16 Will Disrupt the AI NIC Market (axautikgroupllc.substack.com)
The NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL16 Will Disrupt the PCIe Retimer, PCIe switch, and AI NIC Markets
Nvidia, AI, Hardware, Networking, Market Disruption
3 points by colinprince 15 days ago | 0 comments
The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping (mohitdagarwal.substack.com)
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
Nvidia, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Computing
144 points by wilson090 17 days ago | 120 comments
US Government imposes license requirement on Nvidia H20 exports (techcrunch.com)
Semiconductor giant Nvidia is facing unexpected new U.S. export controls on its H20 chips.
Nvidia, US Government, Export Controls, Semiconductor Industry, Technology
13 points by PaulHoule 17 days ago | 4 comments
Nvidia CEO Meets with Chinese Trade Officials in Beijing (nytimes.com)
A day after the U.S. government opened an investigation into whether Nvidia, America’s leading chipmaker, violated rules with its sales to China, its chief executive, Jensen Huang, met on Thursday with Chinese trade officials in Beijing.
Nvidia, China, Trade, Technology, Politics
7 points by bookofjoe 19 days ago | 2 comments
Nvidia CEO makes surprise visit to Beijing after US restricts sales to China (theguardian.com)
The chief executive of the American chip maker Nvidia visited Beijing on Thursday, days after the US issued fresh restrictions on sales of the only AI chip it was still allowed to sell to China.
Nvidia, China, Trade Restrictions, Artificial Intelligence, Business
9 points by zekrioca 21 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia CEO makes surprise visit to China after US restricts chip sales (theguardian.com)
The chief executive of the American chip maker Nvidia visited Beijing on Thursday, days after the US issued fresh restrictions on sales of the only AI chip it was still allowed to sell to China.
Nvidia, China, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Trade Restrictions
11 points by prawn 21 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Why do people buy Nvidia RTX 5090 at x2 the MSRP? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Why do people buy Nvidia RTX 5090 at x2 the MSRP?
Hardware, Consumerism, Graphics Cards, Nvidia, Gaming
11 points by behnamoh 21 days ago | 10 comments
Nvidia, Export Controls and the Trump Team's Art of Trading on Insider Knowledge (dataandpolitics.net)
A perfectly timed Nvidia put trade preceded Trump’s export controls by hours—and paid off by over 600%. In a month already shadowed by suspicious options activity, this one raises new questions.
Nvidia, Politics, Trading, Insider Knowledge, Export Controls
3 points by mdp2021 22 days ago | 1 comments
Nvidia Faces $5.5B Hit as U.S. Restrictions Halt Chinese Sales of H20 GPU (theregister.com)
The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.
Nvidia, Trade Wars, China, Business, Technology
9 points by JustExAWS 23 days ago | 1 comments
Nvidia to take $5.5B hit as US clamps down on exports of AI chips to China (ft.com)
Nvidia, AI Chips, China, Trade, Technology
9 points by doener 23 days ago | 2 comments
Nvidia to mass produce AI supercomputers in Texas as part of $500B U.S. push (cnbc.com)
Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Supercomputers, Texas, Technology
8 points by HiroProtagonist 24 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia Chip Sales Continue in China After CEO's Visit to Mar-a-Lago (gizmodo.com)
Nvidia will be permitted to continue selling H20 graphics processing units in China following a visit to Mar-a-Lago by CEO Jensen Huang, according to NPR.
Nvidia, China, Technology, Politics, Business
8 points by 01-_- 28 days ago | 1 comments
Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA (thenewstack.io)
Nvidia, Python, CUDA, Programming, Software
460 points by apples2apples 34 days ago | 192 comments
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – for data scientists with $3k to spare (theregister.com)
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare
Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Data Science, Finance
44 points by rntn 38 days ago | 55 comments
Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried (theregister.com)
As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.
Nvidia, Moore's Law, Hardware, Technology, Computing
67 points by pseudolus 38 days ago | 62 comments
Jensen, We're with You. But We're Not There Yet (chipstrat.com)
One thing stood out in NVIDIA’s GTC Financial Analyst Q&A: CEO Jensen Huang didn’t feel heard.
Nvidia, CEO, Business, Artificial Intelligence
9 points by austinlyons 41 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia GTC 2025 – Built for Reasoning, Vera Rubin, Kyber, Jensen Math, Feynman (semianalysis.com)
AI model progress has accelerated tremendously, and in the last six months, models have improved more than in the previous six months. This trend will continue because three scaling laws are stacked together and working in tandem: pre-training scaling, post-training scaling, and inference time scaling.
Nvidia, Generative AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
10 points by nabla9 48 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs (theregister.com)
After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable of churning out 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance.
Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Supercomputing, Nvidia
5 points by nabla9 50 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data (wired.com)
Nvidia has acquired synthetic data firm Gretel for nine figures, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal.
Nvidia, Synthetic Data, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Business
3 points by nickthegreek 50 days ago | 0 comments
CuTile: New CUDA Alternative from Nvidia (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Nvidia, CUDA, Hardware
10 points by polyrand 50 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia DGX Spark (nvidia.com)
Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, NVIDIA DGX™ Spark delivers 1000 AI TOPS of AI performance in a power-efficient, compact form factor.
Nvidia, AI, Hardware, Supercomputers, Data Centers
15 points by tanelpoder 50 days ago | 10 comments
Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers" (arstechnica.com)
During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "personal AI supercomputers" called DGX Spark and DGX Station, both powered by the Grace Blackwell platform.
Nvidia, AI, Hardware, Supercomputers
20 points by freeqaz 51 days ago | 6 comments
Nvidia announces "Rubin Ultra" and "Feynman" AI chips for 2027 and 2028 (arstechnica.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Nvidia, Technology, Semiconductors
5 points by rbanffy 51 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power (theverge.com)
Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives.
Nvidia, GPUs, Hardware, Graphics Cards, Professional Workstations
63 points by mfiguiere 51 days ago | 69 comments
How 'inference' is driving competition to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (ft.com)
How ‘inference’ is driving competition to Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Hardware, Competition, Nvidia
7 points by bookofjoe 53 days ago | 2 comments
TSMC Pitches Intel Foundry JV to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom (cnbc.com)
Semiconductors, Technology, Business, Partnerships, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom
9 points by alephnerd 57 days ago | 0 comments
Chinese AI team wins global award for replacing Nvidia GPU with industrial chip (scmp.com)
In a bold challenge to US giant Nvidia’s dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, Chinese researchers have trained a cutting-edge video-generation model on an off-the shelf industrial chip – outperforming high-end GPUs in both speed and efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, China, Competition, Nvidia
6 points by akyuu 57 days ago | 1 comments