NVIDIA promotes graphics chips to cloud computing data centers

Huang The new technology at an industry meeting to apply Nvidia's Kepler graphics processor to the cloud computing world. Nvidia's traditional business was to develop graphics chips for PCs, but it decided to expand new markets after realising the explosive growth in the three major areas of tablet computing, smartphones and cloud computing.

With this new technology, you can run visually excellent games on your servers and play them on your mobile device. "We realized the virtualization of the GPU for the first time," he said. A GPU can now be shared by countless users. "Nvidia's challenge is how to make the users of the data center accessible through the wireless network have a smooth game effect."

Both Nvidia and Qualcomm have been hit by a shortage of top-tier chips due to slower progress in the adoption of the new 28 nm process by the OEM manufacturer TSMC. The shortfall is even more than expected, and Qualcomm has said it is working with other suppliers, but it is still hard to get rid of it most of the year.

Nvidia announced in Monday that it buys about 500 wireless patents from ipwireless to deal with Qualcomm's competition in the lucrative smartphone and tablet chip markets. In addition to the development of smartphone chips, Nvidia is also expanding graphics technology to new areas such as supercomputers, so as to assist the CPU to better perform part of the task. (PEI)

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