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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Nvidia was founded to design a specific kind of chip called a graphics card — also commonly called a GPU (graphics processing unit) — that enables the output of fancy 3D visuals on the computer screen. For most of Nvidia’s existence, game graphics were Nvidia’s raison d’etre. It’s not just the AI chips, either.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

3D Printing Design & Implementation. Application streaming/virtualization is an on-demand software delivery model that takes advantage of the fact that most applications require only a small fraction of their total program code to run. The products are connected to the Internet and the data they generate is easily available.