Wal-Mart Will Use NVIDIA and AI to Dump AWS

Wal-Mart Will Use NVIDIA and AI to Dump AWS

There was a time, not too long ago, when Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) was the undisputed king of retail. However, e-commerce has changed the landscape, and over the last few years, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been taking an increasingly large slice of the retail pie. Wal-Mart has been playing catch-up in online sales, but now it seems the retail giant is ready to take the fight to Amazon, with a little help from NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) and artificial intelligence (AI).

In a note to clients, Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry revealed that Wal-Mart would be building huge data centers to house its cloud computing and make a sizable push into deep learning, a segment of artificial intelligence. Wal-Mart will build a "GPU farm" using graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA to power its cloud platform, which would be about 1/10th of the size of Amazon's massive cloud operations.  

NVIDIA Telsa V100 data center GPU will be coming to Wal-Mart's cloud.

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Source: Fool.com