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Nvidia showed off five racks of equipment covering all aspects of AI infrastructure.
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The image Nvidia suggested to the media for its GTC conference in San Jose, Calif., this week is a line of 40 rectangles representing data center server racks of various kinds. No labels, just the racks standing like a bookshelf of the complete works of Shakespeare, or, more ominously, a phalanx of soldiers.
The implicit message of the imposing wall of racks is that Nvidia, if it doesn't already, will ultimately own all processing in the data center, from one end to the other.
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On stage at the show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used Monday's keynote address to announce a broadening of the company's chip and system offerings. Existing product lines include the Vera CPU chip, the Rubin GPU chip, and, now, a new kind of rack of equipment joins them, for ultra-fast inference, called the LPX.
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