Nvidia, the 1 trillion dollar company

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G. Guttin, A. Fillipi, K. Sullivan Den Bergh – France 2

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Nvidia, an American company that manufactures electronic chips, saw its stock market value rise by more than $200 billion in a week, as its chips are essential for the development of artificial intelligence.

At the Wall Street (New York) stock exchange, analysts knew the names of Amazon, Microsoft, or even Apple. From now on, they will also have to reckon with Nvidia. Unknown until now, the company has risen to the rank of the biggest, with a stock market valuation of 1,000 billion dollars. The Silicon Valley company manufactures processors, ultra-powerful chips with a computing capacity far greater than that of a conventional computer.

An artificial intelligence supercomputer in production

The company equips 50 of the most powerful computers in the world. And with the rise of artificial intelligence, more and more companies are turning to these processors, whether for video games or to direct intelligent robots, these chips are the only ones capable of processing in a few seconds a colossal volume of complex data. At the new technology fair in Taiwan, the CEO of Nvidia announced that thanks to these chips, an artificial intelligence supercomputer was in production. What according to him, to increase a little more the growth of the company.


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