Gizmodo has a writeup (HT Reilly Brennan) about NVIDIA and Foxconn teaming up to build AI factories.
The article quotes NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, “This is a factory that takes data input, and produces intelligence as an output.”
As I understand it, the gist is that Foxconn will make cars, and the data from those cars will flow back to data centers running tons of NVIDIA processors, to gather intelligence from the data.
I guess the cars will also have NVIDIA chips in them, and I’m not totally clear who owns and runs the data centers. But both of those points seem secondary.
The main idea is that NVIDIA is going to have massive processing power in data centers, fed by data from Foxconn cars.
That kind of changes NVIDIA from a chip-seller, to a service provider, as Huang notes.
Huang says Nvidia is also in a transition, from a graphics chip maker into a data center scale computing company, claiming “most of the computers of the future that are interesting are going to be data center scaled.”
David Silver 