NVIDIA won a quartet of awards at Computex 2017, held in Taipei. This extends the company’s winning streak to nine years at the event.
Computex is the largest electronics tradeshow in Asia and the company is honoured to get awards from a wide range of products including Computex’ top design and innnovation for the NVIDIA SHIELD TV. “The wins show the spread of our innovative technologies in meeting the needs of consumers and enterprises, from the data centre to the edge.” said Raymond Teh, vice president of Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing at NVIDIA.
Nvidia Wins 4 Awards at Computex 2017 – The Winners
A first for NVIDIA, SHIELD received honors in the “game devices + content of games” category. An advanced media streaming device, SHIELD delivers the fastest, smoothest 4K HDR video. Not only that but it also provides top notch gaming. Users can even control the experience with their voice, thanks to the built-in Google Voice Search.
The Jetson TX2 won in the intelligent system and solution category. Continuing the legacy from its predecessor the Jetson TX1. Which, also won a Computex Best Choice Award last year. The Jetson TX2 is the leading platform for AI computing. It provides high performance and power efficient computing. Making it good for deep learning computer vision, thus ideal for AI city applications, drones and the like.
Besting in the cloud computing category; The NVIDIA GRID 4.0. It is the industry’s most advanced technology for sharing virtual GPUs across multiple virtual desktop and application instances. NVIDIA GRID’s monitoring capability drives GPU-powered analytics. Allowing it to help measure, manage and support graphics virtualisation environments.
NVIDIA DGX-1, the essential for AI research. It won in the computer and system category. The Best Choice Award went to the DGX-1 built on NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerators, designed to meet the computing demands of AI. Earlier this month, NVIDIA announced its successor, which uses Tesla V100 GPU accelerators built with the Volta GPU architecture. Available later this year, the new DGX-1 offers 3x faster deep learning training performance than its predecessor.
