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Revenue growth is far more interesting to tech investors than revenue over the last few years. Deep learning has a massive potential for revenue growth and total revenue will likely eclipse gaming within the next 10 years.

Imagine a world where every car has semi-autonomous technology, the average security camera is doing object detection, localization, more sophisticated language translation, smart drones, etc. The potential for deep learning is undeniable and Nvidia (currently) is leading this race.

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Except that you mainly need the massive compute for the training, not the commodity execution of the network!

Any idea what kind of compute a self-driving car(with a trained network) will need ?

Depends massively on what the software is doing, there is still no standardisation on what a self-driving car means.

Nvidia is pushing PX2 but I have a feeling they are too expensive for most cars - don't know the exact price but "a few thousand dollars" was quoted for the Teslas that use them. Some specs - http://wccftech.com/nvidia-drive-px2-pascal-gtc-2016/

At the same time Qualcomm is pushing their much less performant chips for self-driving cars, but at a much lower price point (hundreds of dollars)

Something pretty close to this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html (I believe they are currently recommending the 4 GPU version shown on at the bottom of that page under "DRIVE PX 2 FOR FULLY AUTONOMOUS DRIVING")

The key here isn't that this isn't a full power desktop GPU, but it will run inference on a CUDA-compatible kernel.

That give NVidia a complete end-to-end modelling, training and driving platform. No one else has that.

Surely you don't expect cameras and drones to have massive, loud, heavy, power draining, $650 dollar graphics cards in them?

It seems if they are used in development the sales don't scale anywhere near directly with the number of units sold.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Not now, but in the future. Nobody thought we could fit desktop-class graphics cards into slim laptops, but that's a reality today. Though drones will probably go for custom chips.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html

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