At GTC China 2017, Nvidia showcased advancements in AI and GPU computing, attracting over 4,000 attendees and announcing major partnerships with Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent. The company highlighted the launch of TensorRT 3, a programmable inference accelerator that significantly enhances AI inferencing efficiency while signaling the shift towards autonomous machines with platforms like Nvidia Drive. Nvidia continues to push the frontiers of AI, indicating its growing influence within smart city applications and autonomous vehicle technology.

1. GTC CHINA 20I7

2. “At GTC 2017, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Took Beijing by the Storm of AI”
—TechWalker

3. GTC China 2017 was a three-day event hosting more than 4,000 attendees, 100 press and analysts, and 70 professional
talks. Developers and leaders from China’s largest and most innovative companies were on hand.
“NVIDIA Builds on AI Success at GTC Beijing”
—Forbes
Deep Learning Institute
575 developers
Keynote
375K live views
Show Floor + Special Events
40 exhibitors
Inception Awards
5 leading AI startups

4. Two forces are driving the future of computing. First, Moore’s law has ended. Transistors continue to grow by 50% per year,
but CPU performance only grows by 10%. Second, the combination of deep learning, big data, and GPU computing has
ignited the AI revolution. NVIDIA GPU computing has given the industry a path forward. Developers all over the world are
jumping onto the platform. This year, 22,000 people will attend NVIDIA’s GTC developer conferences. And GPU developers
grew 14X in 5 years to over 600,000.
“GPU Is Moore’s Law in the Era of Artificial Intelligence”
—Leiphone

5. NVIDIA
The World’s AI
Computing Platform
NVIDIA TensorRT
1st Programmable Inference
Accelerator
NVIDIA TensorRT
AI Cities Platform
NVIDIA DRIVE
Open AV Platform for the
Transportation Industry
NVIDIA
TensorRT
Xavier
1st Autonomous
Machine Processor
We made announcements in five major areas at GTC China. In sum, China’s most important companies have adopted the
latest NVIDIA GPU computing technologies for AI. And we advanced the NVIDIA platform for the next great AI challenges:
inference and autonomous machines.
“NVIDIA Targets Next AI Frontiers: Inference And China”
—Forbes

6. “NVIDIA Signs Massive Deal
with China’s Kingpins”
— Seeking Alpha
NVIDIA Tesla V100, a 120 TeraFLOPS processor created to drive the next wave of AI, was adopted by Alibaba, Baidu, and
Tencent for their datacenters and cloud service infrastructures. Researchers and startups can now rent the most advanced
AI infrastructure in the cloud and avoid the complexities and expense of building a supercomputer. In addition, Huawei,
Inspur, and Lenovo are using the NVIDIA HGX reference architecture to offer Volta-based servers for enterprises requiring a
dedicated AI supercomputer.

7. “Inferencing Is a Huge Market with Infinite Potential.
With TensorRT 3 NVIDIA Is Ahead of the Game.”
—AI Era
AI will infuse intelligence into 20 million cloud servers, hundreds of millions of autonomous machines, and trillions of
IoT devices. But AI inferencing platforms must be programmable to run the increasingly diverse, and more complex,
AI networks. We announced TensorRT 3, the world’s first programmable inference accelerator, which sharply boosts
the performance and slashes the cost of inferencing, from the cloud to edge devices. TensorRT supports all
frameworks and determines the optimal strategy for each target GPU.

8. “NVIDIA Tech Radically Improves
AI Inferencing Efficiency”
— Tom’s Hardware
The performance of TensorRT is groundbreaking. TensorRT 3 on Volta speeds up image classification 40X over the fastest
CPU, and 140X for language translation. With such performance, just one 8-GPU server can replace 160 dual-CPU servers.
More than 1,200 companies have already begun using NVIDIA's inference platform, including leading Chinese AI companies
Alibaba, Baidu, iFLYTEK, JD.com, and WeChat.
160 CPU servers
45,000 images/second | 65 KWatts
1 NVIDIA HGX with 8 Tesla V100s
45,000 images/second | 3 KWatts
4 Racks in a Box

9. One billion smart cameras will be deployed by 2020 to make our cities smarter and safer. But it will be impossible to
manually monitor them. Building the AI City is a massive inference challenge. NVIDIA Metropolis is an edge-to-cloud
platform to bring the power of AI to smart city applications, from improving traffic to enhancing law enforcement.
Hikvision, the world’s leading intelligent video solutions company, adopted the NVIDIA platform from end-to-end. Alibaba,
Dahua, and Huawei have also created AI solutions on NVIDIA.
“NVIDIA Sets Off an Artificial
Intelligence Wave in
Domestic Security”
— 21csp

10. One of the most important contributions of AI
will be the invention of autonomous vehicles.
NVIDIA DRIVE is an end-to-end platform to
enable the AV revolution. More than 145
startups have adopted it.
“NVIDIA’s Autonomous
Driving Ecosystem
Expands to 145
Startup Partners”
— AI-Drive

11. It will soon be possible to create many classes of autonomous machines that can perceive their surroundings, understand
their situation, and reason about what to do next. The computing challenges require real-time processing, rich sensor I/O,
deep learning inferencing, high performance parallel computation, and great energy efficiency. Xavier, the world’s first
autonomous machine processor, was created to power the new era of autonomous machines.
Xavier: 30 TOPS of CV, Deep Learning, and Parallel Computing
“NVIDIA Jensen Huang: Autonomous Machine Era Is Coming”
—DOIT

12. “JD X Taps NVIDIA for Drone Deliveries, Rescue and Agricultural Use”
—TechCrunch
Robotics will revolutionize manufacturing, logistics, and delivery. JD.com, one of the world’s largest retailers and operators
of logistics, has adopted the NVIDIA Jetson platform for autonomous machines. Xavier will be the SoC for the next-
generation Jetson.

13. “NVIDIA Goes All-in with AI
for the ‘Goodness of Mankind’”
—TweakTown
“AI Godfather Jensen Huang
Leads Innovation”
—DeepTech
“From AI at the Edge to AI City,
NVIDIA Enables AI Everywhere”
—ZDNet
“The NVIDIA GPU Computing
Empire Has Emerged”
—AI Era