GTX 1650 – The 10 Biggest Nvidia News Stories Of 2021 (So Far)

The New King In Computing?

Nvidia would like you to think that it’s the most important computing company of this generation, and it certainly has a few things going on that would support that assertion.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s GeForce GPUs for gaming are popular as ever, and its data center GPUs have continued to sell fast as enterprises begin to accept the component as critical for accelerating next-generation workloads.

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But CEO Jensen Huang is not content to let Nvidia just be the leader of GPU computing. He is eyeing a much bigger prize in the compute market that includes data processing units, purpose-built systems, enterprise software and eventually CPUs that can take on the best from Intel and AMD.

What follows are the 10 biggest Nvidia news stories of 2021 so far, ranging from new enterprise software, programs and GPUs to new AI records, chip shortages and hurdles in the company’s effort to acquire British chip designer Arm for $40 billion.