为何英伟达的芯片能主导AI市场？
经济学人： No other firm has benefited from the boom in artificial intelligence (ai) as much as Nvidia. Since January 2023 the chipmaker’s share price has surged by almost 450%. With the total value of its shares approaching $2trn, Nvidia is now America’s third-most valuable firm, behind Microsoft and Apple. Its revenues for the most recent quarter were $22bn, up from $6bn in the same period last year. Most analysts expect that Nvidia, which controls more than 95% of the market for specialist ai chips, will continue to grow at a blistering pace for the foreseeable future. What makes its chips so special? 没有其他公司像英伟达一样从人工智能 (ai) 的繁荣中受益。自 2023 年 1 月以来，这家芯片制造商的股价已飙升近 450%。 Nvidia 的股票总价值接近 2 万美元，目前是美国第三大市值公司，仅次于微软和苹果。最近一个季度的收入为 220 亿美元，高于去年同期的 60 亿美元。大多数分析师预计，控制着 95% 以上专业人工智能芯片市场的英伟达将在可预见的未来继续以惊人的速度增长。是什么让它的芯片如此特别？ Nvidia’s ai chips, also known as graphics processor units (gpus) or “accelerators”, were initially designed for video games. They use parallel processing, breaking each computation in