After their 2020 meeting with Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado departed feeling disappointed. As former presidents of the company’s Black employees group, they had dedicated a year collaborating with colleagues from various departments to create a presentation aimed at alerting Huang about the potential risks that artificial intelligence (AI) technology could pose, particularly to minority groups. The 22-slide package and other documents reviewed by Bloomberg News pointed to Nvidia’s growing role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence — saying its chips will make AI…

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The CEO of U.S. chipmaker Nvidia said Monday that the company will expand its partnership with high-tech companies in Vietnam and support the country in training talent to develop artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure. Nvidia, which has already invested $250 million in Vietnam, has so far partnered with leading technology companies to deploy artificial intelligence in the cloud, automotive and healthcare industries, a White House document released in September showed as Washington upgraded diplomatic ties with Vietnam. “Vietnam is already our partner because we have millions of customers here,” Nvidia…

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Investors have been caught up in the AI stock frenzy this year, but this has overshadowed the challenges faced by the semiconductor market. While companies like Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have garnered much enthusiasm, the overall situation for investors is more complex. Recent earnings pointed to a slump in the industrial and network chip markets, while some on Wall Street are bracing for the impact of a potential economic downturn on automotive chips. Smartphone components and personal computers appear poised for recovery, according to Samsung Electronics Co.…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday that his company is doing its best to ship its AI processors to Japan amid extremely high market demand. Japan is rushing to rebuild its once world-leading semiconductor infrastructure and catch up with the development of artificial intelligence technology. Graphics processing units (GPUs) manufactured by the US company Nvidia dominate the artificial intelligence market. “Demand is very high, but I promised the prime minister that we will do our best to prioritize Japan’s requirements for GPUs,” Huang told reporters at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s…

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Investors of Nvidia Corp. responded with a lukewarm reception to the company’s recent quarterly report. Although the report exceeded the predictions of average analysts, it did not meet the higher expectations of shareholders who have heavily invested in the potential of artificial intelligence. The turnover for the current period is about 20 billion dollars, the world’s most valuable chip manufacturer said in a statement on Tuesday. While that beat Wall Street’s average forecast of $17.9 billion, some forecasts were as high as $21 billion. Shares fell 3% to $484.42 in…

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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has cautioned that Nvidia Corp.’s stronghold in artificial intelligence is leading to “increasing disparities” among nations and impeding fair competition. “One single country with all the technologies, all the private companies, all the equipment and all the skills would be a failure for all of us,” Le Maire told reporters at the UK’s AI Security Summit at Bletchley Park in the north. From London. He said 92 percent of the graphics processing units — the artificial intelligence accelerators — are owned by Nvidia. Bloomberg…

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