Nvidia Archive

As we saw at CES last month, Asus’ G16 and G14 latops are sleeker and thinner for 2024, featuring a new aluminum build, OLED screens, larger trackpads, and Intel Core Ultra 9 Meteor Lake chips to go with Nvidia 40-series GPUs.

As Nvidia reports its Q4 2023 earnings, CEO Jensen Huang says:

The open-source Gemma models are optimized for “the installed base of over 100 million Nvidia RTX GPUs,” installed in PCs around the world, in addition to Nvidia’s ubiquitous AI chips like the H100.

The Information reports Microsoft’s server network cards, which are currently in development, could replace the ones offered by Nvidia and save the company cash. Server cards move data quickly between servers. These new server cards should not only improve the performance of Nvidia chips, but Microsoft’s upcoming Maia AI chips as well.

Reuters reports on Nvidia’s new unit that will design custom AI chips, even as its customers plan for a future less reliant on Nvidia’s dominant H100 AI chips. Those can start at $16k each, and power the majority of large language models in use today, which has pushed its market value well beyond $1 trillion.

For context, here’s how the Wall Street Journal describes OpenAI’s once-again leader’s trillion dollar effort to “reshape the global semiconductor industry:”

Technically, it began a voluntary recall in December — “STOP USING THEM IMMEDIATELY,” it wrote — but now the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is involved. Full refunds or $60 store credits are available. 25,300 units were sold, with 272 reports of loose, overheated, and melted adapters. Nvidia’s own adapter had a similar issue in 2022.

Nvidia has issued a hotfix GPU driver to address micro-stuttering with V-SYNC and stutter when scrolling in web browsers for some systems. The patch also fixes some stutter in Red Dead Redemption and stability issues with Immortals of Aveum. If you’re not experiencing issues then it’s probably best waiting for Nvidia’s next WHQL driver, but if you’re eager for the fixes you can download the latest driver from Nvidia’s website.