According to the Chinese Economic Daily News, Nvidia's GPUs are mainly used in three major applications: gaming, cryptocurrency mining and AI, and the chips are primarily providing calculation via servers for AI applications,.

Although AI applications now only account for a small share of the GPU shipments compared to that of the gaming, they are still growing rapidly and could become the mainstream application soon.

Gigabyte has a tight partnership with Nvidia in the AI area and is responsible for the design and manufacturing of related whole-rack servers and motherboards. The business currently contributes 15-20 percent of the Gigabyte's overall revenues and sales from the product line are also expected to grow 30 percent on year in 2018, the paper said.

Nvidia has also partnered with Leadtek to push Deep Learning Institute (DLI) to nurture talent for AI development.