Nvidia Declares A New Era Of The PC, In Which The PC Is Also Nvidia — Aninews ep 16
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On Monday in Taipei, Nvidia revealed it now wants to be inside your personal computer. For two years, nearly every artificial-intelligence company has paid Nvidia to do almost anything. Its chips sit beneath the data centers, the models, and the race to replace everyone. Having sold the industry its shovels, it eyed the one market left. The computer on your lap. This week it unveiled its first Windows-laptop chip — twenty cores and a desktop gaming card's graphics. Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm all posted the same three words. A new era of PC. Per his keynote, the company's chief likened the moment to the birth of the smartphone. It ships this fall in laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft. Observers noted the chip's graphics are the desktop card Nvidia already sells, now on your lap. The laptops are expected to start near two thousand dollars, about where the premium ones do. Analysts called it a company politely declining to leave any computer unsold to itself. A new era of the personal computer. One that, like the last, runs on Nvidia.