Photos: A visit to NVIDIA's campus and headquarters
Ever wondered what the graphics visualization giant's headquarters look like inside? We managed to get access to visit NVIDIA's campus and HQ located at Santa Clara, California. So join us for a brief walk-through.
By Vijay Anand -
While attending NVIDIA's Graphics Technology Conference, the company had graciously given us the opportunity to visit their campus down at Santa Clara, California, in the U.S.
NVIDIA's campus is huge, and this picture and the next couple of shots are only a small section of just how big the campus really is.
More views around the NVIDIA campus. While huge, it's still nowhere as large as the grounds at Microsoft, which we'll show you in a future article.
In this picture, you can see NVIDIA's future campus and new HQ still under construction. Sadly, we couldn't get any closer, as we were told that the construction company in charge of it wouldn't allow us to.
Inside the building, our tour began (as with all NVIDIA demonstrations) with a product demo of the company's Iray VCA, GRID, Deep Learning, MDL (Material Design Language), and CUDA technology.
This is the NVIDIA Drive CX, which is really a digital cockpit computer designed to drive displays in your car. NVIDIA claims it is the most advanced visual computing platform for automobiles right now.
The internals of the NVIDIA Drive CX, powered by a Tegra X1 SoC.
NVIDIA's Drive PX2, their new AI supercomputer for self-driving vehicles, which was announced during CES 2016 earlier this year.
The Tegra Drive PX2 is powered by two next-generation Tegra processors (as shown in the previous photo) and two Pascal-based GPUs (as shown here), NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU architecture.
We got a tour through NVIDIA's Failure Analysis lab. As its namesake suggests, this lab is where NVIDIA's top scientists will try and detect any deformities, anomalies, or problems inside a GPU die during its fabrication process.
Interesting fact: Thanks to the use of some very sensitive equipment, the scientists are actually able to boil a problem in the fabrication process right down to an atomic level.
In this picture, you can see the original NVIDIA CELL Processors on the left and in the middle. The processor in the middle was the original 90nm CELL processor that was used in the first generation of PlayStation 3 (PS3). The CELL Processor on the left represents the 45nm variation of the same processor, when advancement in technology allowed NVIDIA to shrink the die size.
The GM200 GPU die, which is used in NVIDIA's current flagship gaming graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
These servers are actually emulators, which NVIDIA uses in order to emulate how a new and possible graphics card would function in real-time calculations. This is where new GPU technologies are born and tested, long before they have a chance to be fabricated, and therefore tangible for the consumer to use.
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