Nvidia presented this Monday, the 1st, the new RTX Spark superchip that promises to bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) functions to notebooks and desktop computers, with new PC models from brands such as Microsoft and Dell expected to hit the market later this year. The chip model combines CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics processing unit) capabilities. Nvidia shares rose 2.48% to $216.37.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced the news in Taipei, during the annual Nvidia GTC event, and said that Microsoft and Nvidia “will reinvent the PC” for creation and gaming. “When you have an autonomous (AI) agent, an agent that is helping you, that understands you, you can talk to it. It can look at you. You can ask it to read files, go and help you do research. It can do much more,” he said.
While Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, USA, has already been extremely successful in providing high-performance chips for data centers, driven by the global boom in demand for AI, the company is laying out further plans to expand its presence in AI systems and products.
Microsoft said in a separate statement that personal computers running Nvidia’s RTX superchips will be able to support “highly capable AI models” and complex workloads.
Nvidia’s move is significant at a time when demand for the use of personal AI agents is growing, said Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at technology research and consultancy group Omdia. “For consumers, this means more options, which is always a good thing,” Su said.
Neil Shah, analyst and co-founder of Counterpoint Research, described Nvidia’s announcement as a move that is “revolutionizing the way PCs will look over the next 10 years.” The new notebooks and desktops will “drive agentic AI applications in every home,” Shah said, with the goal of having an “AI supercomputer” in every home.
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Also during Monday’s speech, Huang stated that Nvidia’s new Vera CPUs for data centers are already in full production and “will be our new big growth engine” in the AI agent boom, with the first expected customers including Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI. He also revealed a humanoid robot reference design that could serve as a model for future research, especially in the higher education sector. Source: Associated Press.
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