Nvidia's CEO is moving at the speed of light.
From Bloomberg, March 31:
Nvidia Corp. said it has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology Inc. as part of an agreement to collaborate on silicon photonics technology, an effort to make AI services more affordable amid historic investments in the new technology.
Nvidia, which has been investing in partners that can help build out AI infrastructure, will integrate its tech platform with networking capabilities from Marvell, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Nvidia’s accelerators are tied together for more advanced artificial intelligence services. The two companies will also collaborate on speeding up telecommunications networks for advanced new technologies.
“Together with Marvell, we are enabling customers to leverage Nvidia’s AI infrastructure ecosystem and scale to build specialized AI compute,” said Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang in the statement.
Silicon photonics help make data transmission faster and more energy efficient...
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Mr. Huang has said he wants to connect entire data centers together into one gigantic chip.
To do that you have to get latency between chips and then between servers as close to zero as possible....
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