When diagnosis time means life or death, NVIDIA's advanced AI can save lives

We may buy new smartphones and laptops every year or two, but when it comes expensive medical computers, that's not an option. There are more than three million medical equipment installed in hospitals today, and more than 100,000 new instruments added each year -- that's according Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC). At this rate, it would take more than 30 years to replace all the old hospital equipment. So how do we advance medical care without adding more cost? Nvidia's technique is to leverage the cloud to provide a "virtual upgrade" to existing medical equipment.