NVIDIA introduced a "supercomputer" the size of a plastic card

The company NVIDIA does its best to get rid of the label of the video card manufacturer, therefore, it actively explores completely new areas of activity for itself. According to the president of the company Jen-San Juan, NVIDIA's engineers are currently focused on research in the field of artificial intelligence and deep machine learning. Also, Jen-Sun introduced a tiny supercomputer for calculating AI, which was called Jetson TX1.

The computer this size resembles a plastic credit card - only 50 by 87 millimeters. The Jetson TX1 includes a Maxwell 256-core GPU processor with a performance of 1 teraflops, a 64-bit ARM A57 processor, Wi-Fi modules, Ethernet, as well as 4 GB of RAM and 16 GB of memory for data storage. On sale, the device should appear in the first quarter of 2016 at a price of $ 299. However, if you can not wait to get the novelty in your hands before the official release, you can buy it right now in the form of a devicata for developers for $ 599, or $ 299, if you are a student or an employee of an educational institution.

"I've worked in the computer industry for more than 30 years, and this is one of the most remarkable events that happened in my memory: computers had the opportunity to self-learn, the ability to independently write code, to think independently. All this will revolutionize the field of web services, "- shares his thoughts Jen-San Juan.

Huang believes that new equipment, as well as software developed within his company, can greatly simplify and accelerate the introduction of machine learning in practice. Servers, thanks to the new software and high processing power, will be able to learn and explore the network on their own.

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