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Thought bit coin mining was bad - just wait for this one !

Flake87

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/technology/nvidia-chipmaker.html?mcubz=3

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy. To do so, they are using computer chips that are best known to video game fans.

The chips are made by the Silicon Valley company Nvidia. Its technology can help sift speedily through images taken by pill-size sensors that patients swallow, allowing doctors to detect intestinal disorders 70 percent faster than if they pored over videos. As a result, procedures cost less and diagnoses are more accurate, said Mateusz Marmolowski, CTA’s chief executive.

Health care applications like the one CTA is pioneering are among Nvidia’s many new targets. The company’s chips — known as graphics processing units, or GPUs — are finding homes in drones, robots, self-driving cars, servers, supercomputers and virtual-reality gear. A key reason for their spread is how rapidly the chips can handle complex artificial-intelligence tasks like image, facial and speech recognition.

Unless of course you have a few million to invest in silcon valley tech of course !
 
Erm, graphics cards have always been used for non-game applications. You do know what CUDA is right?
 
Have you read the entire article, or just the small clip posted here?

You are aware of the reason GPU prices and supply is affected? It's not going to get any better when these applications come on stream, because some of the applications are quite high volume.
 
If a legitimate application comes along which is going to produce a long term stable demand then it'd be more worthwhile for fabrication capacity to be increased. At the moment it's pointless to increase fabrication capacity for crypto mining because it's so volatile that any investment in that capacity could be worthless if the bubble bursts suddenly.
 
These applications won't be used with geforce gaming cards but with Quadro's or Tesla's depending on how the app works. Dont worry no medical company is going to buy up all the 1070, 1080 or 1080tis anytime soon.
 
Flake87 said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/technology/nvidia-chipmaker.html?mcubz=3

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy. To do so, they are using computer chips that are best known to video game fans.

The chips are made by the Silicon Valley company Nvidia. Its technology can help sift speedily through images taken by pill-size sensors that patients swallow, allowing doctors to detect intestinal disorders 70 percent faster than if they pored over videos. As a result, procedures cost less and diagnoses are more accurate, said Mateusz Marmolowski, CTA’s chief executive.

Health care applications like the one CTA is pioneering are among Nvidia’s many new targets. The company’s chips — known as graphics processing units, or GPUs — are finding homes in drones, robots, self-driving cars, servers, supercomputers and virtual-reality gear. A key reason for their spread is how rapidly the chips can handle complex artificial-intelligence tasks like image, facial and speech recognition.

Unless of course you have a few million to invest in silcon valley tech of course !
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This isnt necessarily going to need loads of gpu power.

Reading the website of the company on feb 14th 2017 they posted this..
We recently had the pleasure of participating in a competition organized by "nVIDIA" . Our GastroView solution was appreciated by experts in the jury. We were among the winners. As part of the award, we got the nVidia TitanX card, which immediately found its slot in our computing platform.
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Either they are at a very early stage of development or this is good marketing from Nvidia.

I can see an Nvidia partner selling the computing power with the software.
They won't sell many of these but will be a nice order.
 
Silly article.

GPUs are used for all sorts of compute tasks. Wouldn't surprise me if the market for for compute is bigger than gaming.
 
mid_gen said:
Silly article.

GPUs are used for all sorts of compute tasks. Wouldn't surprise me if the market for for compute is bigger than gaming.
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Saw a video last week where they went through the figures, and while gaming was still bigger than compute, apparently compute is growing a lot faster and should catch up some time in the next handful of years. And as such both AMD and NVidia have been focusing on capturing as much of that market as they can. Apparently its why Volta is already available on the professional side, but it could be as much as a year before we see any gaming cards.
 
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