NVIDIA, the company that co-developed the Nintendo Switch, is amazing

This is Nakauchi from the Technical Sales Department

Do you know the company NVIDIA?

I'm ashamed to say that I found out about it through co-development of the Nintendo Switch

I was interested so I looked into it!!

What kind of company is NVIDIA?

It is an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1993

has
82% market monopoly in the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) market *The term GPU was coined by NVIDIA.

Reference site ⇒ Nvidia's graphics cards have a market share of 82%.
What is a GPU? ⇒ GPU - Wikipedia

In addition to the Nintendo Switch, we are also jointly developing GPUs for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox

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

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

NVIDIA is currently collaborating with the following companies on AI:

Interesting stock prices

It has been declining a little recently, but it is still on a steady upward trend

As of March 7, 2016, the stock price was $32.34, which means that the stock has increased threefold in one year

This shows how much attention it is receiving

GPU-equipped servers are available at IDC Frontier

In Japan, IDC Frontier is selling servers equipped with GPUs

• Initial cost: 0 yen
• 440 yen per hour

It will be available on an hourly rate basis from March 3rd

If you are interested, please come!!

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

bonus

NVIDIA actually makes gaming consoles too

This one

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

It's called "NVIDIA SHIELD Portable"

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

It sells for 82,000 yen (new) on Amazon

It's expensive, isn't it?

Enjoy the rest!!