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NVIDIA Going After More of Intel’s Data Center Business With New Processor Chips

NVIDIA Going After More of Intel’s Data Center Business With New Processor Chips

When announcing new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities developed by his company earlier this year, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang outlined a new type of processor that will become increasingly important in the years ahead: the data processing unit (DPU).



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NVIDIA Going After More of Intel’s Data Center Business With New Processor Chips

Data centers are becoming busy digital-economy hubs with massive amounts of data moving into and out of them, and organizations rely on these hubs to power cloud computing tasks key to their operations. To capitalize on the opportunity, NVIDIA has announced the release of new DPU chips. The move will build on NVIDIA’s momentum in the data center segment (now its largest business end-market) and help it continuously disrupt an industry dominated by chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC).



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CPU, GPU, and DPU basics

Over the years, the CPU (central processing unit) invented by Intel has become the primary chip powering desktop and laptop computers, other mobile devices, and even the movement of data within data centers. GPUs (graphics processing units) were later pioneered by NVIDIA to handle advanced and specialized tasks like video game graphics and, more recently, high-order computing tasks handled in data centers like AI. 

But Huang has outlined NVIDIA’s vision for the future of computing, built on three types of processors: the CPU for generalized tasks, the GPU as a computing accelerator, and the DPU as a specialized manager of data within data centers to handle cloud computing. To that end, NVIDIA recently unveiled the BlueField-2 DPU and accompanying software development kit for engineers building data center infrastructure and cloud applications. 

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