Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, May 14th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today there is monstrous Chip News from NVIDIA. Also the world's first camera sensor with AI built in, a

crypto experiment on Reddit that I feel like might actually have a shot at

working, how long will Google Stick with Hardware?

And new members of the $100 million ARR club.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

So if you're a regular reader of the Tech Meme website, then you might be familiar with the fact that the

Tech Meme editors hand write all of the headlines that they post there. Often those headlines are rewritten for clarity or they

sum up a story in as few words as possible for brevity. So they rarely get colorful with the

language in the headlines because often that would be

superfluous to their mission.

But occasionally, let me just read you the headline sitting at the top of techmeem.com right now.

Invidia unveil's monstrous A100 AI chip with 54 billion transistors and five

pedophlops of performance, about 20 times more than the previous generation Volta.

It's that monstrous adjective that I say is a bit unusual for the editors, but indeed if you hear the story,

Monsterus is actually sort of an apt descriptor.

This is from Venture Beat, quote,

Invidia unwrapped its Invidia A100 artificial intelligence chip today and CEO Jensen Huang called it the ultimate instrument

for advancing AI. Huang said it can make supercomputing tasks which are vital in the fight against COVID-19 much more cost efficient and powerful than today's more expensive systems.

The NVIDIA A100 chip uses the same ampere technology that could be used in consumer applications such

as NVIDIA's G-Force graphics chips. In contrast to advanced micro devices,

NVIDIA is focused on creating a single micro architecture for its

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