Everyone's Watching Nvidia -- but This AI Supplier Is the Real Power Player

Nvidia gets the spotlight, but this behind-the-scenes AI chipmaker is the real force powering the industry.Nvidia (NVDA -0.12%) is considered a pioneer in the artificial intelligence (AI) hardware market, and rightly so, as the chip designer's graphics processing units (GPUs) have allowed cloud computing companies and others to train AI models and run inference applications.The parallel computing power of Nvidia's GPUs makes them ideal for performing a large number of calculations simultaneously, which is p ...