How NVIDIA Is Poised to Profit From Intel's Chip Security Flaws

The revelation of the security bugs couldn't come at a worse time for Intel, making this even more of a PR nightmare than it might first seem. It was just in November that Intel announced that it hired AMD's former graphics head and plans to enter the discrete GPU market. This move wasn't all that surprising, as NVIDIA's data center platform has been profiting mightily from rapid adoption of the company's GPU-based approach to deep learning, a category of artificial intelligence (AI) that essentially trains a machine to think -- or make inferences from data -- like we humans do. All the major internet companies, cloud computing service providers, and computer server makers are using NVIDIA's GPUs to accelerate their deep-learning training and high-performance computing.