At a recent quarterly event, Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang did not mention Samsung in the list of partners, but in an interview with Bloomberg TV he admitted that he was interested in receiving HBM3E memory from this supplier. Along the way, he expressed confidence that international cooperation will continue after Donald Trump comes to power in the United States.
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As noted in Bloomberg’s annotation of an interview with Huang after his speech at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Nvidia, led by him, is interested in obtaining both eight- and 12-tier HBM3E chips. At the end of October, Samsung Electronics announced progress in certifying HBM3E for the needs of Nvidia, but the head of the latter this past week did not put Samsung on a par with SK hynix and Micron when talking about his company’s partners.
During his speech in Hong Kong, as Reuters adds, the Nvidia founder expressed confidence that even if Donald Trump strengthens US export control rules in the field of advanced computing, international cooperation in the technology sector will continue. Huang doesn’t know what changes the new administration will bring, but Nvidia will in any case adapt to the requirements of laws and regulations, providing support to its customers around the world, taking them into account, as well as developing its own technologies. Jensen Huang was invited to Hong Kong in connection with the award of a doctorate from a local university.
The growing energy needs of artificial intelligence systems, Huang explained, are not an unambiguous evil. Such systems can be used to design new wind turbines, find new materials for batteries, and improve methods for storing carbon hydroxide in reservoirs. Powerful data centers need to be built away from densely populated areas and powered by their own renewable energy sources, Huang believes. “I hope that eventually we will see that using energy for artificial intelligence will be the best way to use it that we can imagine,” he concluded. The new era of computing will affect all industries and fields of science, he said.
Now 61, Huang also told students in Hong Kong that he wanted to start his career now because the world is now resetting to a common starting point and young scientists have the tools to advance in many fields. All scientific problems, past and present, now seem solvable, according to Huang.