By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 20:01:00
Nvidia wants the modern AI datacenter to be more like an Apple product, and with announcements it just made at the Computex conference in Taiwan, the company is getting closer to achieving that ambitious goal.
Creating a platform that not only spans the datacenter, but includes the facility itself and reaches out to interface with the power grids that feed datacenters, is not a trivial thing. And making one that meshes with rowscale and rackscale systems and their control planes, which in turn mesh with the software stacks running on individual server nodes and the CPUs and accelerators at an even finer granularity with their own libraries and monitors is a Herculean task. One that a hyperscaler or a cloud builder could do in recent years, and maybe AI model builders are crafting behind the scenes at this moment. Nvidia, which has a damned near complete AI platform generating hundred of billions of dollars a year, can also do it, and this is what the company’s DSX effort is all about.
DSX adds another outer matryoshka doll in an already very deep software hierarchy created by Nvidia, which I will remind you once again is a software company – 75 percent of its nearly 40,000 employees work on software – that happens to design the most sophisticated hardware systems the world has yet seen with the other 25 percent of the employees. We do not know what DSX stands for any more than we did know what the DGX server brand stood for. (We guess that DGX was…
