NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang’s, SIGGRAPH 2024 Keynote Might Be The First Appearance of Consumer-Grade Blackwell GPUs

[erek]

"SIGGRAPH just announced its entire speaker list for the keynote that will take place on the 29th of July (Monday). Among the list is NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, who has been on a celebrity run from GTC, to Computex and the next stop seems to be SIGGRAPH. Following are the full details on Jensen & his keynote highlights:

Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. Huang has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is a recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award; IEEE Founder’s Medal; the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award; and honorary doctorate degrees from National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, and Oregon State University. He has been named the world’s best CEO by The Economist and Harvard Business Review, as well as Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year and one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people. He holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University and an MSEE degree from Stanford.
Jensen’s SIGGRAPH 2024 Keynote Presentation takes place Monday, 29 July.
In this fireside chat, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang will discuss how generative AI and accelerated computing are transforming industries such as manufacturing and creating new opportunities for innovation and growth. The convergence of AI and advanced computing, from AI PCs to AI factories to digital twins, is driving this transformation.
Jensen will speak about the impact of robotics and AI in industrial digitization, illustrating how industry sectors are adopting autonomous operations and building city-scale digital twins to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Last year at SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA announced a host of RTX Ada Workstation GPUs along with an update to the Hopper family in the form of GH200 which is now shipping to its very first customers and was even published within the MLPerf Training benchmarks yesterday. The scope of SIGGRAPH can be vast but it is up to NVIDIA to decide whether they want to go grand or keep it simple for now as the company is expected to introduce its next-gen Blackwell consumer GPUs around late 2024."

Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-jen...-keynote-first-appearance-consumer-blackwell/

 

[Epyon]

Oh yes, another product I won’t be able to buy for at least six months maybe a year after launch. And only the top end card will be worth buying as all the other cards will most likely be dog shit with dog shit prices.

Come get me when I can actually buy the product at Micro Center

 

[Rev. Night]

I'm fully in support of ol leather jacket. I've been an investor in Nvidia for years.

The higher prices, the better

 

[1_rick]

Come get me when I can actually buy the product at Micro Center

They're not top products but I was suprised today, when window shopping at Walmart, to see a bunch of computer components: Corsair AIOs, K-series CPUs, motherboards, and up to a 4070, on the shelves.

 

[dogDAbone]

I'm fully in support of ol leather jacket. I've been an investor in Nvidia for years.

The higher prices, the better

I don't give a crap about his stinkin cowpow attire, however, I DO love them massive dividend checks that land in my bank account every month....

but does it seem as though his hairline receding a little faster nowadays or what ?

 

[NattyKathy]

An architecture teaser for Blackwell is not out of the question but I doubt we'll see any specifics or actual consumer products.
Looking at past keynotes, Turing arch was announced at SIGGRAPH 2018 but consumer cards weren't detailed until GTC. Ampere arch (in the form of A100) was announced a few months before SIGGRAPH 2020 with consumer cards announced at GTC (the infamous CGI "kitchen keynote"), and Ada arch + cards was announced at GTC 2022.
Maybe at the most we'll get "hey we have a new GPU arch in the works", don't get hopes up about Jensen waving a 5090 at the crowd next month if Blackwell release is set for autumn.