What just happened? Since its introduction in 2006, CUDA has been a proprietary technology running exclusively on Nvidia's own GPU hardware. Now, the GeForce maker appears ready to open CUDA to at ...

Why it matters: Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006 as a proprietary API and software layer that eventually became the key to unlocking the immense parallel computing power of GPUs. CUDA plays a major role ...

CUDA and Tensor Cores are some of the most prominent specs on an NVIDIA GPU. These cores are the fundamental computational blocks that allow a GPU to perform a bunch of tasks such as video rendering, ...

Apple’s MLX machine learning framework, originally designed for Apple Silicon, is getting a CUDA backend, which is a pretty big deal. Here’s why. The work is being led by developer @zcbenz on GitHub ...

Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears to be winding ...

At the recent Nvidia GTC conference, executives and speakers frequently referenced the AI factory. It was one of the buzzwords that got a lot of attention after Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, ...

The beauty of the PC platform is its backward compatibility. The whole reason that x86 and Windows have survived as long as they have is because they have largely preserved compatibility with old ...