What to Expect From GTC: Nvidia’s Groq Chip

It’s party time in San Jose, Calif.! Nvidia on Monday kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in the city, the biggest event on the chip giant’s calendar—which, given the number of public events featuring its CEO, Jensen Huang, is saying something. Huang is scheduled to deliver his keynote tomorrow morning, and it is sure to be a must-watch for people in the AI sector. 

One of the biggest things he’s expected to announce is a new chip system that combines Nvidia’s technology with that of Groq, the independent chip firm whose tech Nvidia licensed in a roughly $20 billion deal late last year. This is the first time Nvidia has integrated another company’s AI processor directly into its server racks. Nvidia’s current flagship systems rely almost entirely on its own processors and high-speed interconnects to link the components together.