I had the pleasure of sitting face to face with the Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA- Mr. Jen Hsun Huang.
Will GPUs become obsolete in the not-so-distant future when everything is rendered in the cloud?
“In twenty years, it will be Tegra on your handheld device and Tesla on a server. There will be millions and millions of Teslas all over the world rendering for everybody. Its gonna be used for rendering HDTVs, Cellphones and displays in your cars. The question is that is this the right thing to build? If it is and if I can deliver an extra-ordinary experience building it, then I don’t care if it cannibalizes our current products. If I put Tesla in the cloud, I know that every Intel integrated graphics user can have a good experience.”
Where are Tegra and ION headed?
“I believe they’re casual computers that people carry with them for the primary purpose to have a convenient access to the web. Some people have a PC sensibility so they get a netbook which is like a PC- Other people start from a cell phone sensibility- an iPhone sensibility. Its just that the iPhone is not big enough so they get themselves a bigger smartbook or smartpad. People that want the same thing but they come from two different places. Netbooks and Smartbooks are gonna exist because of people coming from these two different sensibilities. I have a smartphone but I wish I had a better Internet access. For the guy with a laptop- the laptop is too heavy and the battery life is not good enough. We would like to give you a great computing experience irrespective of your perspective. We’re a visual computing company.
With netbooks, our strategy is to bring a great experience to someone who has an Atom PC. An ION is an energized Atom so we’re gonna have all kinds of Energizers in the future- many many more Ions to come. Atom is a good but its a little limiting- not because the processor is slow but because the cache is not enough. Intel shrunk the cache too much. If you’re a little patient, dual core is gonna come and chips will get better and better. ”
Can you talk about Tegra 2?
“We’ll probably announce something at CES and while other people are still showing their generation catching up with Tegra, we’re gonna leap forward ourselves. NVIDIA’s rhythm is once a year and its been a year. We wanna keep the market moving very very fast so Tegra 2 is coming.”
Any Tegra based Smartphones coming up?
“No. Smartphones take a lot longer to get done because they have to go through a nine month period of career certification and we can’t announce our customers product. They have their own marketing department. ”
That was about as much time as I had with him and in conlusion I asked him where he sees technology going.
“Things will tend to change slower than you think in five years but faster in ten years. Reason for that is that it takes time for the industry to cultivate and organize. Once you organize, the rate of change is very fast. I believe that the personal computers as we know it, will become a “work” station. For example, our PC will become our work station- we’ll be working at that station. Most families will have a multi-media workstation.
But our “personal” computers for accessing the internet or casual computing will likely just be a web based device- 4G with 20mb/s internet connectivity will allow you to do everything with it. It could either be a large or small tablet- just a sheet of glass so thin and possibly translucent with a camera to augment the image in front of you with computer graphics. Basically Iron Man. That kind of future is not only a certainty, its practically here.”
I would very much like to thank Jen Hsun and wish NVIDIA the best of luck with their upcoming Fermi . Here is a picture that we took before the interview, one that I will certainly cherish.
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