Nvidia's graphics chips aren't used just for games anymore. Since the company made its chips programmable, they are taking on functions that Intel microprocessors do. And more than ever, they are being used for Big Data number crunching and solving problems that previously had to be done by non-graphics supercomputers.
Jen-Hsun Huang (pictured), chief executive of Nvidia, said in a keynote speech at the company's GPU Tech conference that top enterprise and mobile app companies are using GPUs (graphics processing units) to handle Big Data analytics, advance search, and tasks like face recognition.
