Nvidia Keynote Fills 11,000-Seat SAP Center
Asa Fitch, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+):
The Nvidia frenzy over artificial intelligence has come to this:
Chief Executive Jensen Huang unveiled his company’s latest chips
on Monday in a sports arena at an event one analyst dubbed the “AI
Woodstock.”
Customers, partners and fans of the chip company descended on the
SAP Center, the home of the National Hockey League’s San Jose
Sharks, for Huang’s keynote speech at an annual Nvidia conference
that, this year, has a seating capacity of about 11,000.
Professional wrestling’s WWE Monday Night RAW event took place
there in February. Justin Timberlake is scheduled to play the
arena in May. Even Apple’s much-watched launch events for the
iPhone and iPad didn’t fill a venue this large.
Apple never tried to fill a venue that large for a keynote (the big keynotes at Macworld Expo and WWDC in were capped at about 4,000 to 5,000), but surely could have. But the point stands: Nvidia has the world’s attention, and deservedly so.
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Asa Fitch, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+):
The Nvidia frenzy over artificial intelligence has come to this:
Chief Executive Jensen Huang unveiled his company’s latest chips
on Monday in a sports arena at an event one analyst dubbed the “AI
Woodstock.”
Customers, partners and fans of the chip company descended on the
SAP Center, the home of the National Hockey League’s San Jose
Sharks, for Huang’s keynote speech at an annual Nvidia conference
that, this year, has a seating capacity of about 11,000.
Professional wrestling’s WWE Monday Night RAW event took place
there in February. Justin Timberlake is scheduled to play the
arena in May. Even Apple’s much-watched launch events for the
iPhone and iPad didn’t fill a venue this large.
Apple never tried to fill a venue that large for a keynote (the big keynotes at Macworld Expo and WWDC in were capped at about 4,000 to 5,000), but surely could have. But the point stands: Nvidia has the world’s attention, and deservedly so.