EETimes - Nvidia Reinvents GPU, Blows Previous Generation Out of the Water -

Jensen Huang's much-anticipated keynote speech today, postponed from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in March, will unveil the company's eighth-generation GPU architecture. Emerging three years after the debut of the previous generation Volta architecture, Ampere is said to be the biggest generational leap in the company's history. Ampere is built to accelerate both AI training and inference, as well as data analytics, scientific computing and cloud graphics. The first chip built on Ampere, the A100, has some pretty impressive vital statistics. Nvidia claims the A100 has 20x the performance of the equivalent Volta device for both AI training (single precision, 32-bit floating point numbers) and AI inference (8-bit integer numbers).