Nvidia unveils new chip to bring AI directly to personal computers

Nvidia’s new chip will power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models to make ‘AI personal computers’.Nvidia is set to bring Artificial Intelligence to laptop and desktop computers with brands like Microsoft and Dell later this year as the US tech giant broadens its AI presence.The Santa Clara, California-based AI chipmaker unveiled on Monday at its annual Nvidia GTC event in Taipei new powerful chips that would bring advanced AI functions to laptops and desktop computers.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Who will replace Newsom? What to know about California’s primary electionslist 2 of 4Donated milk reaches Cuba amid deepening shortageslist 3 of 4Ex-US Fed Chair Powell warns against politicisation amid Trump’s attackslist 4 of 4Egypt’s new monorail offers a modern ride, but Cairo is still not convincedend of listCEO Jensen Huang said that the new development is “going to reinvent the PC [personal computer]”.The changes come amid three years of collaboration between Microsoft and Nvidia and pit the latter against companies like chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and personal computer brands Intel and Apple.“This is going to be the new PC,” Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip — which combines CPU, or central processing unit, and GPU, or graphics processing unit, capabilities — that would power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models in what the company called “AI personal computers”, expected to debut in the fall of this year.The chip, developed with Taiwan’s MediaTek, will be in compact desktops from Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.Nvidia, which is already the world’s most valuable company, said the reinvention will be for creating and gaming.“When it has an autonomous [AI] agent, an agent that’s helping you, that understands you, you could talk to it. It could look at you. You could ask it to read files, go help you do some research. It could do a lot more,” Huang said.Microsoft said in a separate statement that the personal computers running on Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchips would be able to support “highly capable AI models” and complex workloads. With the new superchips, these personal computers can run AI agents locally, Nvidia said.