Nvidia’s sought-after Blackwell chips were inspired by David Blackwell, a mathematician and statistician who died in 2010 at age 91. In addition to groundbreaking contributions to game theory, probability theory and information theory, Blackwell penned one of the first-ever textbooks on Bayesian statistics in 1969.

Chief Jensen Huang unveils Vera Rubin semiconductor and says appetite for ever-faster ones and software will continue to grow

Jensen Huang, Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer, used his annual developer conference to address concerns that the cost of artificial intelligence computing is spiraling out of control.