Tag: nvidia
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Huawei is not a carmaker. It wants to be the Bosch of China
One after another, Chinese technology giants have announced their plans for the auto space throughout the past couple of months. Some internet businesses, such as search engine provider Baidu, made a decision to recruit support from a conventional carmaker to create cars. Xiaomi, which makes its smartphones but has stressed for many years it’s a…
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Aurora VP Jinnah Hosein is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI is tomorrow and we have one more exciting speaker statement to talk about. Jinnah Hosein, the vice president of applications technology in self-driving automobile startup Aurora, is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics AI in UC Berkeley on March 3. Hosein will combine Ike Robotics CTO and co-founder Jur van den Berg…
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Nvidia’s Ampere is more likely to be post-Volta than post-Turing gaming GPUs
Even the Nvidia Ampere GPUs might represent the next generation of images architecture from the green GPU manufacturing machine, but will they be monstrous chips, or silicon’s kind shinies to make our games look awesome? We’re gambling on the former, and I’m speculating that would make Ampere the legitimate successor to Volta rather than the…
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Leaked Nvidia 2080 Ti Super GPU turns out to be an RTX Tesla for GeForce Now
Nvidia may still launch a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super this year, but that RTX T10-8 graphics card referenced in the latest AIDA 64 beta release ain’t it. It’s looking like that’s actually a new TU102-based RTX Tesla card being used in Nvidia server-land to power the new ray tracing back end for the RTX-y…
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Powering the brains of tomorrow’s intelligent machines
Shahin Farshchi Contributor Shahin Farshchi is a partner at Lux Capital. More posts by this contributor Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention Sense and compute are the electronic eyes and ears that will be the ultimate power behind…
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Tesla reportedly working on its own battery cell manufacturing capability
Automaker Tesla is considering how it might have another crucial part of its distribution chain, through research being performed at a key laboratory close to its Fremont, CA HQ, CNBC reports. The business currently is determined by Panasonic to construct cells and the battery package it utilizes for its own vehicles, which can be among,…
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Elon Musk calls it ‘financially insane’ to buy a car that isn’t an EV capable of full self-driving
During the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting which occurred on Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn’t mince words when he spoke about what he thinks about their value proposition of traditional fossil fuel vehicles. He called it “financially mad ” to buy any car that isn’t a electric automobile capable of full freedom — which, conveniently,…
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Nvidia reveals first AI platform for edge devices
In a bid to bring artificial intelligence to edge devices, Nvidia has declared its new Nvidia EGX platform which has the capacity to understand and act on information in real time without needing to send it into the cloud or information center first. Up until today, AI calculations were so complicated that they required machines…
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Autonomous truck startup TuSimple hits unicorn status in latest round
Another autonomous vehicle unicorn has joined the herd. TuSimple, a self-driving truck startup running daily routes for clients in Arizona, has increased $95 million in a Series D financing round led by Sina Corp. as the firm prepares to scale its industrial autonomous fleet to over 50 trucks by June. The startup, which launched in 2015…