"Huang was named the recipient of the medal (and an accompanying $2 million prize) at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 6 in recognition of his lifetime of work in accelerating computing-the technique of using specialized chips like Nvidia's graphics processing units to speed specialized operations such as rendering images for video games, crunching numbers for scientific research, or, critically for the industry today, powering artificial intelligence."
"Nvidia released what it calls the first GPU, the GeForce 256, in 1999. At the time, the chip was principally recognized for advancing computer gaming, letting developers and artists add unprecedented levels of graphical detail without compromising speed. Under Huang's leadership, the company soon began work on CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), a system that enables developers to harness the parallel processing capabilities of its chips for a variety of computational tasks."
""It just is so important to have this kind of compute power at our fingertips, to be able to make advances so quickly," says Mary Ellen Randall, president and CEO of IEEE."
Jensen Huang has led Nvidia since cofounding it in 1993 and received the IEEE Medal of Honor with a $2 million prize for lifetime work accelerating computing. Nvidia popularized the GPU with the 1999 GeForce 256, which advanced computer gaming by adding graphical detail without compromising speed. Huang oversaw development of CUDA to let developers use parallel processing capabilities of GPUs for diverse computational tasks. Nvidia's chips and development platforms now provide much of the computing power behind modern AI systems, large language models, autonomous vehicles, and industrial robots. Nvidia reached a $5 trillion valuation in October but has since seen market cap decline amid concerns about an AI bubble.
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