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Huang emphasized that the transition from traditional CPU-based systems to GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure is unavoidable and urgent. Moore’s law has slowed, making incremental improvements insufficient. Instead, a paradigm shift akin to moving from mainframes to personal computers is unfolding on a faster timeline.
The scope is vast: the existing trillion-dollar infrastructure—servers, data centers, enterprise systems—needs to be replaced or supplemented with GPU-based AI infrastructure. During this transition, both old and new systems must run in parallel, creating unprecedented capital investment opportunities for hardware manufacturers, data center builders, and energy providers.