Five things to know about Nvidia

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After launching as a small gaming start-up and morphing into the top chip designer for artificial intelligence, US tech giant Nvidia faces unprecedented turbulence after its…

After launching as a small gaming start-up and morphing into the top chip designer for artificial intelligence, US tech giant Nvidia faces unprecedented turbulence after its co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang reportedly had a second extramarital affair with an employee.

Huang had already acknowledged being "unfaithful" to his wife, reportedly with a woman US intelligence officials believe was a spy for China.

Here are five things to know about the firm headquartered in Santa Clara, California, where the board is reportedly weighing Huang's future as chief executive.

Behind the acronym lies the driving force behind the new generation of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI -- that is, a version capable of creating text, music, images or video based on a prompt couched in everyday language.

The graphics processing unit (GPU), also known as a graphics card, functions as a computing unit much faster and vastly more powerful than a conventional microprocessor (CPU).

It has become essential for managing user requests for generative AI in real time, as these require processing vast amounts of data.

According to the research firm TrendForce, ChatGPT requires around 30,000 GPUs to operate. Google, for its cloud computing business, is also a major consumer of Nvidia processors, as are Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.

Co-founded in 1993 by three former employees of major IT companies -- Jen-Hsun Huang (who now goes by Jensen), Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem -- the company took a while to decide on a name.

In a 2017 interview with US magazine Fortune, Huang explained that the name "Nvidia" comes from the letters N and V, which they used in their file names to stand for "Next Version."

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