Taipei’s crowded stadium hears CEO Jensen Huang declare, “The next Industrial Revolution has begun.”
The CEO of AI hardware manufacturer Nvidia announced plans to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence and said that “the next Industrial Revolution has begun” in front of a crowded Taipei Stadium on Sunday.
The CEOs of some of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, such as AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, are in Taiwan for Computex, the island’s premier tech event, and plans for an AI-dominated tech sector are high on the agenda.
Huang, who was born in Taiwan, is well-known there. His visit sparked a lot of media and public curiosity, largely because Nvidia is the clear market leader for the specialized chips and systems required to create and operate cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
Huang addressed the assembly at the sports center of National Taiwan University, saying, “Companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center – AI factories – to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence.”
He revealed that Nvidia ACE generative AI, which can produce lifelike human avatars for sectors like customer support, is now available to the general public.
He also described how some of the biggest tech firms, including Siemens, a German industrial company, and Foxconn, a Taiwanese company that is the largest contract electronics manufacturer in the world, are leveraging Nvidia’s platforms to develop AI-powered autonomous robots.
Huang revealed plans for a 2025 “ultra” version of the Blackwell platform, which Nvidia had just unveiled, and hinted at a possible next-generation GPU architecture known as Rubin.
“Our company follows a one-year cycle,” he stated, referring to an expedited roadmap that introduces new GPU devices annually.”
Almost every interaction you have with the internet or with a computer will likely have a generative AI running in the cloud somewhere,” Huang said in his nearly two-hour speech.
He also praised Taiwan, whose sophisticated semiconductor industry is essential to the manufacturing of everything from iPhones to the servers that power ChatGPT, at the beginning and end of his talk.
He declared, “Our valued partners reside in Taiwan.” This is the starting point for everything Nvidia does; our partners and we take it global from here. Taiwan and our partnership has created the world’s AI infrastructure.”
The AI infrastructure of the globe was established by Taiwan and our collaboration.Huang threw the first pitch at a baseball game in Taipei the day before he gave his statement.
Additionally, he had dinner on Thursday with a few prominent figures from Taiwan’s IT sector, including the CEO of Foxconn.
Jensen Huang, the CEO and founder of Nvidia, speaks during the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose.Nvidia: What makes the company’s latest AI superchip so good?
Continue readingComputex keynote speakers, Cristiano Amon, the CEO of Qualcomm, and Lisa Su of AMD are also set to speak.
According to the organizers, Amon will “showcase the AI-accelerated experiences users can expect from their next-generation PCs,” while Su is anticipated to discuss AMD’s strategies for competing in cutting-edge AI.
Rene Haas, the CEO of the massive British chip design company Arm, and Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel, will both be speaking at the event.
Taiwanese manufacturers play a key role in the ambitions of tech companies who are heavily investing in artificial intelligence (AI). Taiwan produces the majority of the world’s most advanced semiconductors, including those required for the most potent AI research and applications.
In recent years, suppliers like Foxconn—which had previously concentrated on manufacturing contract electronics for companies like Apple—have also shifted to manufacturing AI hardware.
Young Liu, the CEO of Foxconn, informed shareholders on Friday that the company would reach a 40% global market share in AI servers this year.
But Taiwan’s pivotal role in the semiconductor supply chain—the backbone of the contemporary economy—has raised concerns in boardrooms and capitals across the globe.
Although Taiwan is a sovereign nation, China maintains territorial claims to the island and has never ruled out using force to impose its will.
Beijing and Taipei’s relationship has gotten worse in recent years, and the Chinese military has conducted many large-scale drills surrounding the island, including one that simulated a blockade.
