Get to Know High-Powered NVIDIA Chips: From Gaming to the Climate Change Battlefield
- Carbonoi
- Dec 7, 2024
- 2 min read
Last week, everyone likely got to know Jensen Huang, CEO and Founder of NVIDIA, a bit better thanks to his visit to Thailand, meeting with the Prime Minister, and speaking at the "AI Vision for Thailand" event.
Ajarn Fon of Carbonoi has consistently followed developments in computer engineering and would like to share the brilliance of NVIDIA chips and their role in Climate Change.
From Gaming Chips...
NVIDIA is an American company founded over 30 years ago, developing graphics technology for the gaming and multimedia markets. It's a leader in designing and manufacturing Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) found in graphics cards.
NVIDIA's chips are widely used by gamers who demand powerful machines capable of rendering incredibly detailed 3D images. The principle behind GPUs is parallel computing, which allows graphics processing to be done rapidly, based on linear algebra calculations.
...To AI Chips
In the 2000s, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) boomed again with Deep Learning models, which are also based on linear algebra calculations. That's when a sharp mind had an idea:
"Hey, we can use GPUs for AI computation too!"
From then until now, NVIDIA has become a company that develops and manufactures high-performance chips. Currently, the majority of NVIDIA's revenue comes from chips supplied to the AI and Data Center markets, vastly exceeding revenue from gaming and graphics. Its market capitalization ranks among the world's Top 5, alongside Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Chips Helping the World
NVIDIA has launched a platform for simulating and predicting the climate called NVIDIA Earth-2. It uses AI technology combined with physical models, running on high-performance GPUs to analyze weather data quickly and in incredible detail. It can accurately predict climate change and forecast natural disasters.
Many countries have adopted this platform to help shape national policies.
Without high-performance hardware, AI for Climate Change would be impossible. This represents a new hope for the world, helping scientists and policymakers better understand climate change and respond in time!
However, AI for Climate Change still relies on several other factors to be fully effective. We'll tell you more about that next time.
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