Nvidia is working with chip designer ARM on technology that’s designed to allow for more energy-efficient supercomputers. VentureBeat reports that the graphics company will give the ARM ecosystem access to all its high-performance and AI-focused software by 2020, in a move which Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said will help to “boost” the industry to achieve so-called exascale computing, systems capable of a billion billion (or a quintillion) floating point operations a second. The announcement means that Nvidia now supports all major CPU architectures.
This isn’t the first time the two companies have worked together — the Nvidia Tegra X1 chip that powers the Nintendo Switch has an ARM CPU for example — but this move makes ARM more…
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