Hacker News with Generative AI: Nvidia

Mellanox magic: The secret behind Nvidia's meteoric trillion-dollar rise (2023) (calcalistech.com)
In 2019, the American chip giant purchased Yokneam-based Mellanox for about $7 billion. While success has many fathers, you cannot deny the Israeli contribution to ensuring Nvidia was in the right place and at the right time for the AI revolution

Nvidia, Acquisitions, AI, Israel, Technology

7 points by walterbell 3 days ago | 2 comments

AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia (nextplatform.com)
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed.

Supercomputing, Hardware, AMD, Nvidia

195 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 134 comments

Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company (bloomberg.com)
Nvidia Corp. became the largest company in the world on Tuesday, surpassing Apple Inc. and underscoring just how dominant artificial intelligence has become on Wall Street.

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Business, Finance

119 points by LopRabbit 14 days ago | 127 comments

Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company (cnbc.com)

Nvidia, Apple, Finance, Technology, Market Capitalization

30 points by mgh2 16 days ago | 20 comments

Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions (twitter.com)

Nvidia, Export Restrictions, Technology, Politics, International Relations

324 points by mgh2 16 days ago | 214 comments

Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that AI chipmaker Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking a seismic shift in the semiconductor industry and ending Intel's 25-year run on the prestigious stock market index.

Nvidia, Intel, Semiconductor Industry, Stock Market

5 points by marklar423 17 days ago | 1 comments

Security flaws found in Nvidia GeForce GPUs (pcworld.com)
Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia is currently issuing a warning to all owners of GeForce GPUs. According to an Nvidia security bulletin, several security vulnerabilities requiring urgent attention have been discovered in the company’s own display drivers and other software.

Security, Hardware, Nvidia, GPUs, Software

216 points by wumeow 18 days ago | 148 comments

Nvidia (NVDA) to Replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (tipranks.com)
Nvidia (NVDA) is being added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing rival chipmaker Intel (INTC).

Nvidia, Stock Market, Finance, Technology

58 points by LopRabbit 19 days ago | 28 comments

Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel (cnbc.com)

Finance, Nvidia, Intel

416 points by koolba 19 days ago | 222 comments

Nvidia is working on Arm processors for Windows, according to report (pcworld.com)
You might not know it, but Nvidia builds a lot of Arm processors. In addition to its self-branded and much-loved SHIELD set-top boxes, it makes the Tegra heart of every Nintendo Switch, now over 140 million of them as its generation winds down.

Nvidia, Arm, Windows, Processors, Hardware

7 points by doublepg23 20 days ago | 1 comments

AMD Will Need Another Decade to Try to Pass Nvidia (nextplatform.com)
Lisu Su has turned in her first ten years at the helm of AMD, and what a hell of a run it has been.

AMD, Nvidia, Semiconductor Industry, Technology, Business

28 points by rbanffy 22 days ago | 16 comments

Nvidia dethrones Apple as the most valuable company (businessinsider.com)
Nvidia briefly surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company on Friday with a $3.53 trillion valuation.

Nvidia, Apple, Valuation, Technology, Finance

82 points by elsewhen 26 days ago | 47 comments

Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024 (tomshardware.com)

Nvidia, RISC-V, Hardware, Semiconductors, 2024

30 points by ohong 28 days ago | 11 comments

Nvidia signs a slew of AI-related deals in India (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia is embarking on a series of partnerships with Indian firms to deploy its AI chips and technology, deepening its push into a key growth market.

Nvidia, Artificial Intelligence, India, Partnerships, Technology

5 points by rntn 28 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia has blocked Russian users from downloading the GPU drivers (reddit.com)

Nvidia, Russia, Technology, Software, Geopolitics

11 points by mepian 29 days ago | 1 comments

Fast and scalable dataset preparation and curation tool from Nvidia (github.com/NVIDIA)
🚀 The GPU-Accelerated Open Source Framework for Efficient Large Language Model Data Curation 🚀

Open Source, Data Science, Nvidia, Machine Learning

12 points by shcheklein 29 days ago | 0 comments

New Transformer architecture modifications from Nvidia researchers (twitter.com)

Transformers, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Research, Nvidia

4 points by amichail 33 days ago | 0 comments

Qualcomm wants to buy Intel. Would that be enough to overtake Nvidia? (yahoo.com)
Yahoo Finance

Tech Acquisitions, Semiconductor Industry, Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm

3 points by mgh2 35 days ago | 0 comments

How the First GPU Leveled Up Gaming and Ignited the AI Era (nvidia.com)
In 1999, fans lined up at Blockbuster to rent chunky VHS tapes of The Matrix. Y2K preppers hoarded cash and canned Spam, fearing a worldwide computer crash. Teens gleefully downloaded Britney Spears and Eminem on Napster.

Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, History, Technology, Nvidia

11 points by doener 40 days ago | 18 comments

Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs are sold out for the next 12 months (tomshardware.com)

Nvidia, GPUs, Hardware, Availability

3 points by doener 40 days ago | 1 comments

Nvidia Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors (phoronix.com)
At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API.

Nvidia, Wayland, Vulkan, Graphics, Linux

4 points by undercut 41 days ago | 0 comments

AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia's Blackwell (cnbc.com)

AMD, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Nvidia, Competition

20 points by teleforce 41 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia and MediaTek Collaborate on 3nm AI PC CPU (tomshardware.com)

Nvidia, MediaTek, AI, Processors, Hardware

10 points by mgh2 43 days ago | 4 comments

Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, 32GB VRAM, 512-bit bus (tomshardware.com)

Graphics Cards, Hardware, Gaming, Technology, Nvidia

12 points by elorant 56 days ago | 3 comments

Nvidia Can Pay 50% More for Intel (forbes.com)
Mobile chipset specialist Qualcomm approached Intel regarding a potential takeover, per a report in The Wall Street Journal. However, Nvidia would be a far better suitor, with the ability to pay up to 50% more for Intel.

Nvidia, Intel, Acquisitions, Semiconductor Industry, Technology

5 points by gfortaine 57 days ago | 6 comments

Nvidia Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI "Sign of Things to Come" (phoronix.com)
Merged to the Linux 6.12 kernel Git source tree today were the RDMA subsystem updates. Besides Broadcom and HiSilicon continuing to work on upstream new hardware support, a notable change from the Git merge is the NVIDIA Mellanox "mlx5" driver adding multi-path PCI support.

Linux Kernel, Networking, Hardware, Nvidia, PCI

25 points by LinuxBender 57 days ago | 4 comments

Elon Musk and Larry Ellison Begged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for AI GPUs at Dinner (tomshardware.com)

AI, Technology, Business, Nvidia, Personalities

42 points by SG- 68 days ago | 0 comments

U.S. Govt pushes Nvidia and Apple to use Intel's foundries (tomshardware.com)

U.S. Government, Semiconductor Industry, Intel, Nvidia, Apple

33 points by ivewonyoung 68 days ago | 42 comments

Xockets Files Antitrust, Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nvidia (prnewswire.com)
Xockets, Inc., the inventor of advanced Data Processing Units, or "DPUs," that enable accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, or "AI," in cloud data centers, today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, against Nvidia Corp., Microsoft Corp., and RPX Corp., alleging violation of federal antitrust laws for illegal monopoly practices and willful patent infringement (docket number 6:24-cv-453).