NVIDIA Graces Us with a New CPU and GPU at GTC 2021

April 13, 2021

There was a veritable flood of GPU announcements at GTC 2021.

NVIDIA’s CTO Jensen Huang has never been known to be quiet and has always been at the center of the GPU Technology Conference (GTC). This year’s online incarnation, open to all, is no different—the one-hour, 48-minute keynote video was chock full of new announcements. Here are most of them in no particular order:

Omniverse – collaboration and simulation cloud platform
RTX GPUs – latest desktop and embedded GPUs
A10 and A16 GPU – latest data-center GPUs
DGX SuperPod – multi-tenant supercomputer
Grace CPU – future Arm-based enterprise compute platform
BlueField-3 DPU – data-center processing unit
DOCA 1.0 SDK – software support for BlueField
EGX updates – AI platform for the enterprise
Aerial 5G – 5G base-station platform
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin – latest auto platform
NVIDIA DRIVE Atlan – auto platform built around BlueField
Morpheus – AI-driven security-management platform
Jarvis – conversational AI framework for real-time speech recognition and translation
Maxine – virtual collaboration and content
Triton – cloud-based inference
CuQuantum SDK – quantum-computing simulation

Hopefully I didn’t miss much in this list. We will be delving into these in more detail in other articles and videos. I was going to add more details here, but it's easier to check out our GTC 2021 digital issue for the latest news and announcements, in addition to some of the links above.

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