Jensen Huang still steps in to settle internal fights over Nvidia's scarce AI chips, executive says
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is personally intervening to manage internal competition for the company's limited supply of AI chips. Despite being the world's most valuable company, Nvidia faces significant resource allocation challenges as demand from major tech firms outpaces production.
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This highlights the extreme scarcity of high-end AI hardware, which acts as a bottleneck for the entire global generative AI industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Even Nvidia teams compete for limited AI chips as demand from data centers keeps soaring. Nvidia's automotive chief says Jensen Huang still settles internal fights over scarce AI chips. Its autonomous driving remains a strategic priority despite the AI chip crunch. Even Nvidia isn't immune to the AI chip shortage. The company's automotive division still has to compete internally for access to the GPUs that have made Nvidia the world's most valuable company, according to Xinzhou Wu, Nvidia's head of automotive. "Even at Nvidia, basically we do have a limited supply of GPU for compute," Wu said in an episode of The Verge's "Decoder" podcast that aired on Monday.
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