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Why it matters: Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006 as a proprietary API and software layer that eventually became the key to unlocking the immense parallel computing power of GPUs. CUDA plays a major role ...

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is working to disrupt Nvidia Corporation's dominance in the GPU market by developing an open-source alternative to CUDA. The Q4 2023 earnings report showed strong growth ...

Key changes make GPUs easier to program, more efficient, and harder for rivals to replace. New features enhance AI development, further locking developers into Nvidia's ecosystem. Nvidia ( NVDA) had ...

In context: PhysX is a moderately popular middleware used to add complex, physics-based interactions to 3D graphics in games and other software applications. Originally developed by the Swiss company ...

NVIDIA’s long-standing dominance in the AI GPU market, primarily attributed to its proprietary CUDA ecosystem, is facing new challenges as competitors develop alternative solutions to break the ...

At its most basic level, Compute Unified Architecture (CUDA) allows general-purpose processing and other tasks to run on NVIDIA GPUs with extensive language support. Since its inception, CUDA has been ...