NVIDIA
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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in programmable graphics processing technology. As famous as ATI (later acquired by AMD), it focuses on creating products that enhance the human-computer interaction experience on personal and professional computing platforms. The company's graphics and communications processors have a broad market presence and are used in a wide variety of computing platforms, including personal digital media PCs, business PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook computers, military navigation systems and video game consoles Wait. NVIDIA employs more than 4,000 people worldwide. Numerous OEMs, graphics card manufacturers, system builders, and consumer electronics companies around the world choose NVIDIA processors as the core components of their entertainment and business solutions. In PC applications such as manufacturing, research, e-commerce, entertainment and education, NVIDIA's award-winning graphics processors deliver outstanding performance and crisp visuals. Its media and communications processors are capable of performing the most demanding multimedia processing tasks in broadband connectivity and communications applications, as well as delivering breakthrough capabilities in audio applications. The foundation of NVIDIA products and technologies is NVIDIA ForceWare, a comprehensive software suite that enables industry-leading graphics, audio, video, communications, storage and security capabilities. NVIDIA ForceWare improves the productivity, stability and functionality of a wide range of desktop and mobile PCs powered by NVIDIA GeForce graphics chips and NVIDIA nForce platform solutions.
NVIDIA specializes in creating innovative products for computers, consumer electronics and mobile devices that can change entire industries. These product families are transforming visually rich and computationally intensive applications such as video games, the film industry, broadcasting, industrial design, financial modeling, space exploration, and medical imaging.
In addition, NVIDIA is committed to developing and delivering industry-leading advanced technologies, including NVIDIA SLI technology, a revolutionary technology that provides the flexibility to dramatically increase system performance, and NVIDIA PureVideo high-definition video technology.
NVIDIA has developed five product families to meet the needs of specific market segments, including: GeForce, Tegra, ION, Quadro, Tesla. The company continues to set new standards for visual computing with stunning interactive graphics products that can be found on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations.
On February 8, 2018, Nvidia announced its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results. The financial report shows that Nvidia's 2017 full-year revenue hit a record high of $9.71 billion, a year-on-year increase of 41%, and profit increased by 83%. Nvidia's full-year GAAP earnings per share were as high as $4.82, an increase of 88% year-on-year. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Nvidia's revenue reached $2.91 billion, up 34% year over year. GPU revenue rose 33% year over year to $2.46 billion. [10]
From November 20th to 22nd, 2018, NVIDIA will hold the GTC China 2018 conference in Suzhou [11]. The NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the AI and deep learning conference and the global industry gathering for GPU developers. [12] GTC CHINA will hold more than 70 professional technical lectures for three days, and the number of participants is expected to exceed 8,000. NVIDIA founder and CEO Huang Renxun delivered a keynote speech. [12]
In April 2020, NVIDIA officially announced that it had completed the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. [78], expanding the product layout from GPU to DPU [77]. The founder and CEO of NVIDIA stated in the release of the first quarter of fiscal year 2022: "One year after the completion of the Mellanox acquisition, it has exceeded our expectations and NVIDIA has also transformed into a data center-class computing company."[79]
In April 2021, NVIDIA released its first CPU code-named "Grace," designed for giant AI and high-performance computing workloads. So far, NVIDIA is already a three-chip company. NVIDIA's data center roadmap consists of 3 chips: CPU, GPU, and DPU. Each chip architecture undergoes a two-year polishing cycle, one year focusing on the x86 platform and the other year focusing on the Arm platform. [77]
On November 17, 2021 local time in the United States, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) released its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 ended October 31, with revenue increasing by 50% year-on-year to $7.103 billion, higher than analysts' average expectation. US$6.83 billion; under non-GAAP, net profit was US$2.973 billion, a year-on-year increase of 62%. Earnings per share of $1.17 also beat consensus estimates of $1.11. [81]
On December 16, 2021, Hesai Technology announced that it has reached a cooperation with NVIDIA. NVIDIA will use Hesai's Pandar128 lidar on its NVIDIA DRIVE platform as the ground truth sensor of its autonomous driving development system. [89]
On February 1, 2022, the first notebooks equipped with NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti will be available, and NVIDIA has also released the latest Game Ready 511.65 WHQL to support the new graphics cards. [92]
On March 22, 2022, at the GTC 2022 conference, NVIDIA announced the company's latest autonomous driving technology platform, Drive Hyperion 9, and announced that electric vehicle manufacturers such as BYD will adopt the platform architecture.
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