GTC 2022: Nvidia flexes its GPU and platform muscles

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Nvidia packed about three years' worth of news into its GPU Technology Conference today. Flamboyant CEO Jensen Huang's 1 hour, 39-minute keynote covered a lot of ground, but the unifying themes to the majority of the two dozen announcements were GPU-centered and Nvidia's platform approach to everything it builds. Most people know Nvidia as the world's largest manufacturer of a graphics processing unit, or GPU. The GPU is a chip that was first used to accelerate graphics in gaming systems.