After turning into the sufferer of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus not as soon as however twice, NVIDIA’s GTC 2020 keynote tackle has lastly been rescheduled. The digital keynote is now set to be broadcast on YouTube on May 14th, at 6am Pacific (13:00 UTC).
One of the various know-how commerce exhibits impacted by the now international pandemic, NVIDIA resorted to breaking apart their annual GPU Technology Conference into a number of items. Various shows and classes initially scheduled to be given on the present have as a substitute been moved on-line as a part of NVIDIA’s digital GTC 2020 convention. Meanwhile the show-defining keynote speech, as all the time to be delivered by CEO Jensen Huang, was beforehand rescheduled as a digital occasion for March earlier than being postponed fully.
And whereas NVIDIA isn’t saying a lot new in regards to the contents of the keynote itself, it’s nonetheless anticipated to be one in all NVIDIA’s most essential shows of the previous few years. In specific, this yr’s keynote is broadly anticipated to incorporate the announcement of a next-generation compute GPU structure.
NVIDIA’s present Volta architecture-based GV100 GPU is now just a few years previous, and supercomputer planning bulletins have tipped the truth that NVIDIA could have a brand new Tesla accelerator prepared later this yr. The present technology of Tesla accelerators have been an enormous success story for NVIDIA, so there’s an excessive amount of curiosity in seeing how NVIDIA will sustain that momentum, particularly within the face of stiff competitors from all instructions, from FPGA suppliers to Intel’s Xe GPU household.
