The AI boom’s biggest winner moves beyond chips

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In the world of tech few events are as keenly awaited as Jensen Huang’s speech at Nvidia’s annual developer conference. And at this year’s gathering in San Jose on March 16th his talk did not disappoint. Over two hours, the boss of the world’s most valuable company unveiled new chips, artificial-intelligence models and systems for everything from space-based data centres to self-driving cars. He went on to claim that this array of new products will help Nvidia sell over $1trn-worth of AI-related hardware in the coming years.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Space Nvader”

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