Nvidia is the latest semiconductor company to announce a new processor combining AI and 5G functionality, and brings its huge weight in the AI landscape to bear behind a burgeoning trend. Its announcement came complete with a set of big-name partners to help target specific applications or vertical sectors. The latter include general enterprise, healthcare, industrial IoT, managed edge compute services, and mobile infrastructure itself. Nvidia’s move follows a string of developments and releases over the past year, bringing together AI and 5G. These have come from both major semiconductor companies and start-ups. The GPU giant’s strategy is to recruit partners to fashion its 5G and AI package in methodical pursuit of different use cases. The AI-on-5G platform itself integrates…