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Shares in American technology company Nvidia have risen sharply during the past year.[qh]
美国科技公司英伟达的股价在过去一年中大幅上涨。[qh]
The increases have given the company a market valuation of more than $3 trillion.[qh]
这些增长使该公司的市值超过了3万亿美元。[qh]
Last week, the price of Nvidia’s shares made it the world’s most valuable company for a short time, ahead of Microsoft and Apple.[qh]
上周，英伟达的股价使其在短时间内成为全球市值最高的公司，超过了微软和苹果。[qh]
On June 20, Nvidia’s estimated market value reached $3.34 trillion.[qh]
6月20日，英伟达的预估市值达到了3.34万亿美元。[qh]
At that time, Microsoft’s market value was listed at $3.30 trillion, while Apple’s valuation was $3.22 trillion.[qh]
当时，微软的市值为3.30万亿美元，而苹果的估值为3.22万亿美元。[qh]
But Nvidia’s share price then dropped sharply, reducing the company’s valuation.[qh]
但英伟达的股价随后大幅下跌，降低了公司的估值。[qh]
Later the share price rose again, including a five percent increase during Tuesday’s trading.[qh]
随后股价再次上涨，包括周二交易日期间上涨了5%。[qh]
Some financial experts said the recent movements in Nvidia’s share price helped drive gains across the U.S. stock market.[qh]
一些金融专家表示，英伟达股价近期的走势有助于推动整个美国股市的上涨。[qh]
They noted that Nvidia has grown to become one of the largest and most influential companies on the stock market.[qh]
他们指出，英伟达已经发展成为股票市场上最大和最具影响力的公司之一。[qh]
What path did the company take to get where it is today?[qh]
这家公司是通过什么途径才取得今天的成就的？[qh]
The company was formed by three engineers – Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem – who first discussed their ideas for the business over dinner.[qh]
该公司由三位工程师——黄仁勋、克里斯·马拉科夫斯基和柯蒂斯·普里姆——创立，他们最初是在晚餐时讨论了他们的商业想法。[qh]
Their main goal was to design and build a computer chip that would make graphics used for video games faster and more realistic.[qh]
他们的主要目标是设计和制造一种计算机芯片，使用于视频游戏的图形片更快、更逼真。[qh]
Nvidia was founded in 1993. At the time, the business centered on the production of chips built to support high-level graphics operations.[qh]
Nvidia成立于1993年。当时，该公司业务集中在生产用于支持高级图形操作的芯片上。[qh]
This development continued and in 1999, the California-based company invented the graphics processor unit, or GPU.[qh]
这一业务仍在继续，1999年，这家总部位于加利福尼亚的公司发明了图形处理器，即GPU。[qh]
This move was widely seen as helping to drive a big increase in computer gaming and redefine computer graphics.[qh]
此举被广泛认为有助于推动计算机游戏的大幅增长，并重新定义计算机图形。[qh]
Nvidia’s business expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic when gaming increased in popularity while people were under stay-at-home orders.[qh]
英伟达的业务在新冠疫情期间得到了扩展，当时人们居家隔离，游戏变得越来越受欢迎。[qh]
Today, the company is centered on producing specialized computer chips designed to support artificial intelligence (AI) operations.[qh]
如今，该公司专注于生产专门设计用于支持人工智能（AI）操作的计算机芯片。[qh]
The chips run powerful processing systems used to train AI systems.[qh]
这些芯片运行着用于训练人工智能系统的强大处理系统。[qh]
These tools – such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Apple’s Apple Intelligence — are trained and developed on huge amounts of internet data.[qh]
这些工具——例如OpenAI的ChatGPT、谷歌的Gemini和苹果的AppleIntelligence——是在大量的互联网数据上进行训练和开发的。[qh]
Huang currently serves as Nvidia’s chief executive officer (CEO).[qh]
黄仁勋目前担任英伟达公司的首席执行官（CEO）。[qh]
During a conference call last month with industry experts, he predicted that companies using Nvidia chips would be looking to build new data centers called “AI factories.” [qh]
在上个月与行业专家举行的电话会议上，他预测使用 Nvidia 芯片的公司将寻求建立名为 "人工智能工厂 "的新数据中心。[qh]
Huang added that training AI models is becoming a faster process as the systems learn to become “multimodal.” [qh]
黄补充说，随着系统学会变得“多模态”，训练AI模型正在成为一个更快的过程。[qh]
He said this means they are able to understand text, speech, images, video, and other forms of data and can also “reason and plan.” [qh]
他表示，这意味着他们能够理解文本、语音、图像、视频和其他形式的数据，并且还能够“推理和规划”。[qh]
“People kind of talk about AI as if Jensen just kind of arrived like in the last 18 months, like 24 months ago all of a sudden figured this out,” said Daniel Newman.[qh]
丹尼尔·纽曼表示：“人们谈论人工智能时，好像詹森在过去的18个月里才突然出现，就好像24个月前突然想出了这个主意。”[qh]
He heads the technology research company The Futurum Group.[qh]
他是科技研究公司TheFuturumGroup领导。[qh]
“But if you actually go back in time and listen to Jensen talking about accelerated computing, he’s been sharing his vision for more than a decade,” Newman told the Associated Press.[qh]
“但是，如果你真的回到过去，听听詹森谈论加速计算，他其实分享他的愿景已经超过十年了，”纽曼告诉美联社。[qh]
Newman said Nvidia’s GPUs have played an important part in the company’s recent success by filling an immediate need for specialized AI chip products.[qh]
纽曼表示，英伟达的GPU在公司近期的成功中发挥了重要作用，满足了对专业AI芯片产品的迫切需求。[qh]
“They took an architecture that was used for a single thing, to maybe enhance gaming, and they figured out how to network these things,” Newman said.[qh]
“他们采用了一种架构，这种架构原本只用于单一用途，可能是为了增强游戏性能，然后他们想出了如何将这些东西联网，”纽曼说。[qh]
He added, “They basically ended up creating a market that didn’t exist, which was GPUs for AI, or GPUs for machine learning.” [qh]
他补充道：“他们基本上最终创造了一个原本不存在的市场，即用于人工智能的GPU，或用于机器学习的GPU。”[qh]
Technology experts say GPUs are designed to more easily process the specific kind of math involved in AI computing.[qh]
技术专家表示，GPU旨在更轻松地处理人工智能计算中涉及的特定类型的数学。[qh]
By comparison, other processing systems are built to deal with a wider range of operations, but with less efficiency.[qh]
相比之下，其他处理系统是为了处理更广泛的操作而构建的，但效率较低。[qh]
OpenAI's ChatGPT, for example, was created with thousands of Nvidia GPUs.[qh]
OpenAI的ChatGPT，例如，是用数千个NvidiaGPU创建的。[qh]
And Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly secured GPUs from Nvidia for his startup company, xAI. [qh]
据报道，特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克已为他的初创公司xAI从英伟达获得了图形处理器。[qh]
I’m Bryan Lynn.[qh]
我是布莱恩·林恩。[qh]
