NVIDIA Bets On AI Personal Computers With New Chip Powering Windows Laptops

Nvidia unveiled on Monday new powerful chips that would bring advanced artificial intelligence functions into laptops and desktop computers, with the new personal computer models from brands including Microsoft and Dell set to roll out later this year. While Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia has already been massively successful in supplying high-end chips for data centers riding the worldwide AI demand boom, it is plotting different plans to expand its presence across AI systems and products. Jensen Huang, the Taiwanese-American founder and CEO of Nvidia, made the announcement in Taipei at the annual Nvidia GTC event. “This is going to be the new PC,” Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip 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. Nvidia is already the world’s most valuable company, followed by Apple, Google’s parent Alphabet and Microsoft. Microsoft said in a separate statement that the personal computers running on Nvidia’s RTX chips would be able to support “highly capable AI models” and complex workloads. With the new chips, these personal computers can run AI agents locally, Nvidia said. Also during Monday’s speech, Nvidia’s Huang said its new Vera CPUs, or central processing units, for data centers are in full production and are “going to be our new major growth driver” on the boom of AI agents.