The chips fit into what Nvidia calls AI factories, which generate tokens that help companies implement AI plans. “AI factory revenues are equal to tokens-per-watt. With power constraints, every unused watt is revenue lost,” Huang said.
So far at GTC, most of Nvidia’s token messaging has been around inference rather than training, but inferencing won’t involve tokens costing “gigabucks,” said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates.
Nvidia claims Vera Rubin will cut computing costs even as system prices go up, but that claim isn’t as simple as it appears on the surface, Gold said.
