NVIDIA, which co-developed the Nintendo Switch, is amazing

This is Nakauchi from the technical sales department.

Do you know the company NVIDIA?

I am embarrassed to say that I found out that they are co-developing the Nintendo Switch.

I was interested so I looked into it! !

What kind of company is NVIDIA?

An American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1993.

NVIDIA's market monopoly rate in the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) market 82% .
*NVIDIA created the name GPU.

Reference site ⇒ It turns out that Nvidia graphics cards have a market share of 82% What
is GPU? ⇒ GPU - Wikipedia

In terms of game consoles, in addition to Nintendo Switch, we are jointly developing GPUs for PlayStation3 and Xbox.

Recently, attention has been focused on the field of AI (artificial intelligence).

, GPUs are attracting attention because they are indispensable for the
deep learning calculations necessary to run AI (This is a very simple explanation, so if you want to know more, please search for "AI deep learning GPU" etc.)

Therefore, NVIDIA is jointly developing AI with the following companies.

Stock prices of interest

It's been going down a little lately, but it's going up nicely.

The stock price as of March 7, 2016 is $32.34, so it has increased three times in one year.

This shows the high degree of attention.

GPU-equipped servers can be used with IDC Frontier

In Japan, IDC Frontier is selling servers equipped with GPUs.

• Initial cost 0 yen
• 440 yen per hour

It seems that it will be offered from March 3rd on an hourly billing method.

If you are interested, please come! !

Reference site ⇒ IDC Frontier is the first in Japan to offer NVIDIA's high-performance GPU on an hourly basis

bonus

NVIDIA actually releases game consoles as well.

This one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZxDHY4twlE

Its name is "NVIDIA SHIELD Portable"

There is also an official website in Japanese. ⇒Japanese official website

It is sold on Amazon for 82,000 yen (new).

It's expensive, isn't it? . .

Looks like things are going well later! !