Last week, in gentle of the continuing SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, NVIDIA opted to scale down their plans for his or her annual commerce present, the 2020 GPU Technology Conference. At the time the corporate introduced that they’d take the present completely digital, together with providing webinars, pre-recorded talks, and naturally, CEO Jensen Huang’s annual keynote. However every week later, and people digital choices at the moment are getting an entire lot slimmer, as NVIDIA is saying that they’ve canceled the keynote altogether.
Citing the present coronavirus state of affairs and the potential for it to influence their skill to supply a keynote presentation, the corporate is “deferring plans to deliver a webcast keynote”. But fairly than hand over on making any bulletins altogether, rather than that NVIDIA now intends to situation a collection of reports bulletins on March 24th that had beforehand been scheduled to be shared within the keynote. So whereas NVIDIA has scaled issues again even additional, there’ll nonetheless be some information popping out of the corporate later this month.
The large, excellent query after all is what number of “major” bulletins NVIDIA will nonetheless go forward with. GTC keynotes in recent times have been an onion of types, with core NVIDIA know-how bulletins surrounded by information about partnerships, tasks clients have been engaged on, NVIDIA’s personal analysis tasks, and many others. So there may be an excessive amount of (intentional?) ambiguity in at the moment’s announcement from NVIDIA, because it’s not clear if NVIDIA continues to be going to make some long-expected core know-how bulletins, or in the event that they’ll withhold them for an additional time.
Complicating all of this one diploma additional is that the corporate’s annual investor day takes place throughout GTC. That presentation, which usually encapsulates the keynote’s main bulletins with an excessive amount of dialogue on NVIDIA’s financials, has been scaled again as effectively, however not completely. NVIDIA will nonetheless be doing an investor name on the morning of the 24th, which is ready to comply with the discharge of their information bulletins. As a outcome, there are a number of competing elements right here in figuring out what information NVIDIA nonetheless must or will wish to current.
The excellent news, no less than, is that the remainder of GTC Digital will nonetheless be going down. That kicks off on March 25th, with NVIDIA set to launch extra particulars on how the corporate will likely be accumulating and sharing that materials.
At any charge, AnandTech will likely be overlaying all the information from GTC, no matter what type it is available in. So remember to test again in on the 24th to see what NVIDIA is (or isn’t?) saying this month.
