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In a year where we saw new components release every month, Nvidia remained relatively quiet throughout the year. That’s not to say the company did nothing at all, after all the year included some big releases, including the Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti, and playing its part in the Nintendo Switch launch. More than anything though, this year felt like the calm before the storm for Nvidia.
In this article, we’ll tally all of Nvidia’s achievements and mistakes in 2017 to deliver a report card on how the chip maker performed this year. We’ll also do a little prediction as to what and how Nvidia will do in the coming year.
Neural networking
No CES would be complete without Nvidia talking about artificial intelligence, and the company delivered exactly that at the beginning of the year. Team green also announced a new Google Assistant-powered Shield set top box. Whether you wanted to start playing Stranger Things or order a pizza, you could now do it all just by shouting from your couch.
We also got our usual dose of Nvidia expanding and improving its AI platform for driverless cars and other fields at CES. While this might seem like a side project for the graphics card maker, Nvidia makes its bread-and-butter on AI. With multi-billion dollar contracts, it’s how the company gets around making only a few new GPUs this year.
Switching into consoles
You might not have known this, but Nvidia makes the graphics processor that powers the Nintendo Switch.
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