TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) delivered the keynote address for Computex Taipei on Monday, addressing a large crowd that included his parents at the Taipei Music Center.
Huang praised Taiwan's role in computing, one of the most important industries. He said Taiwan is at the center of the computer ecosystem, per UDN.
According to Huang, Nvidia has participated in Computex for more than 30 years. He recounted the days when Nvidia sought to build the new CUDA computing platform in 2006.
He said he wanted to change how computers operated. In 2016, he learned that new computing methods required new processors and software, so the company released the DGX-1 supercomputer.
He said that nobdy knew what he was talking about at the time, as the company failed to receive purchase orders. Faced with few opportunities, he donated DGX-1 to OpenAI, thus starting the AI revolution.
Huang said that throughout Nvidia’s journey, he has been proud of the support from Taiwanese partners, using a background screen to display their corporate logos. He said that these partners will have input into which direction the industry will go as he pledged to announce exciting products, new markets, and a developing ecosystem.
He said Nvidia is not just a technology company but an infrastructure company. Huang said that few companies announce five-year technology road maps, though his company made such a commitment to allow everyone to start building their own data centers.
Long ago, Nvidia defined itself as an AI infrastructure company that can meet the needs of global partners. For this reason, it freely gave details about the technical requirements of data centers.
Huang said that in the next ten years, AI will become integrated into every aspect of daily life, from every company to every industry. “We need AI to be everywhere,” he said.
Huang equated AI to the internet and electricity. Nvidia believes that in the future, its AI data center, or what Huang describes as AI factories, will use energy or electricity to produce something very valuable, such as tokens or computing units.
