NVIDIA unveils advances in AI platform

The 10th edition of the $9.71-billion NVIDIA Corporation's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2018) for GPU developers opened on Tuesday to an audience of 8,500 where its Founder, President and CEO, Jensen Huang unveiled a series of advances to its deep learning computing platform. For over two hours, Huang took the audience through some "amazing graphics, amazing science, amazing AI and amazing robots." Introducing NVIDIA RTX technology that runs on a Quadro GV100 processor, he said: "This technology is the most important advance in computer graphics in 15 years as we can now bring real-time ray tracing to the market. Virtually everyone is adopting it." Elaborating on its relevance, he said, the gaming industry that makes 400 games a year, uses ray-tracing to render entire games in advance.