Nvidia Plans to Crush Competition

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  • Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) plans to offer the technology infrastructure that links artificial intelligence chips together and makes them run more efficiently.

  • This could make electricity-hungry installations less likely to use what are already record levels of electricity.

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Nvidia Plans to Crush Competition

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It is not enough for Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) to make the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips. It plans to offer the technology infrastructure that links them together and makes them run more efficiently. This is another step forward for a company that cannot be stopped as it has dominated what may be the most important technology in history.

“Using NVLink Fusion, hyperscalers can work with the NVIDIA partner ecosystem to integrate NVIDIA rack-scale solutions for seamless deployment in data center infrastructure,” the company said. In other words, Nvidia will offer technology to outside firms that will tie chips together to speed up chip-to-chip communication.

Tech companies that deploy AI chips across server systems can buy pre-configured racks. This allows them to skip a step, speeding up the ability to knit servers together and do so rapidly at scale. Usually, AI companies have to turn to third parties to do this or do it on their own. Nvidia calls this “interconnect technology.”

Using Less Electricity

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The new platform, in theory, speeds up the rate at which tech companies can build server systems that run AI chips. Nvidia also says its technology is more efficient. This could make electricity-hungry installations less likely to use what are already record levels of electricity.

Former CEO Eric Schmidt recently said in a presentation, “99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI.” He added in comments to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, “What we need from you is energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever. It needs to be there, and it needs to be there quickly.”

Energy use is at the heart of what could slow AI availability and adoption. AI server farms must compete across a weak U.S. electricity grid and limited energy generation that already supplies residential and legacy business customers, Bitcoin mining, and a rising use of air conditioning worldwide driven by global warming.

AI giants, including Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, have been looking for places and ways to provide electricity for their AI aspirations. Some will rely on new nuclear energy installations, solar, and wind. However, electricity will not be available online fast enough to feed their energy hunger. Nvidia may have just launched a system that will help.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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