From Reuters:
Nvidia (NVDA) may have made its fortune off of specialized graphics processing units (GPUs) for artificial intelligence servers, but CEO Jensen Huang has increasingly expressed his love for more general-purpose CPUs.
For decades, the CPU, or central processing unit, has been considered the brains of computers, a product most associated with Intel (INTC) or sometimes Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Jen-Hsun Huang likes to say that once 90 percent of computing happened on the CPU and 10 percent on chips like his, but that ratio has reversed in recent years.
But now, as AI companies move from training models to deploying them, CPUs are making a comeback and are increasingly being viewed as an equal, if not better, choice — and Nvidia plans to be a big part of that shift.
“We like CPUs and GPUs,” Huang said during a conference call with analysts on Wednesday about the company’s fourth-quarter results.
He assured them that Nvidia is not only ready to put CPUs back in the spotlight, but that Nvidia’s data center CPU products, first announced in 2023, will outperform the competition.
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