NVIDIA today made available the NVIDIA® CUDA® 5 production release, a powerful new version of the world's most pervasive parallel computing platform and programming model for accelerating scientific ...

What just happened? Since its introduction in 2006, CUDA has been a proprietary technology running exclusively on Nvidia's own GPU hardware. Now, the GeForce maker appears ready to open CUDA to at ...

Why it matters: Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006 as a proprietary API and software layer that eventually became the key to unlocking the immense parallel computing power of GPUs. CUDA plays a major role ...

CUDA and Tensor Cores are some of the most prominent specs on an NVIDIA GPU. These cores are the fundamental computational blocks that allow a GPU to perform a bunch of tasks such as video rendering, ...

The latest ASIC that grabbed a lot of attention is OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip, its first in-house inference chip, built with ...