AI fight breaks: Nvidia vs. the world

Nvidia, with its claim to be the leading AI training engine in the data center, has painted a big bullseye on their back. Nvidia’s outsize marketing strategy means that everyone who has introduced or shown an AI chip is going to come after Nvidia.  Nvidia has raised the bar with their new Turing-based Tesla T4 AIB, and, strangely, is positioning it as an inferencing processor. If inferencing is done in the cloud, as it is for Alexa, Shazam, and others then the positioning makes sense. Nvidia lists three main inference applications it thinks the T4 would be good at, as