Nvidia launches combo CPU-GPU for laptops and desktops

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Nvidia launches combo CPU-GPU for laptops and desktops

Nvidia is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel technology in that arena and modernising the machines for the AI era.

Starting this spring, Nvidia’s new RTX Spark Superchip will debut in laptop and desktop computers from leading PC brands, including Dell Technologies and Lenovo Group, chief executive officer Jensen Huang said at the Computex trade show in Taipei.

[Bloomberg]

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2061334617051856967

 

[Smiggles]

The AI bubble is about to pop so they need to diversify.

The new devices will also boost gaming capabilities, allowing laptops to handle high-end titles, Nvidia said.

Good luck there's not many Windows ARM native games and emulation still sucks.

 

[VooDooC]

Someone at work showed me the pricing model on this


Product Expected Price
Entry-level GB10/RTX Spark systems ~$2,999 USD
NVIDIA DGX Spark (base) ~$3,999 USD
DGX Spark Founders Edition (current pricing) ~$4,699 USD

That's a big nope from me

 

[Lawnchairman]

Cost cheaper then Ryzen and Intel?

 

[garyc]

The industry seems to be tending towards this System-in-Package concept where the package is essentially the motherboard. Jensen calling it a reinvention of the computer is a bit much. Apple have been doing it for a while, Intel did the Lunar lake series, phones typically have this, and there are various server options similar to it.

 

[RedViking]

"Dell"

Yuck.

 

[Bad Ballie]

Cooling is going to get interesting, will wait and see what the final performance is like.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Someone at work showed me the pricing model on this


Product Expected Price
Entry-level GB10/RTX Spark systems ~$2,999 USD
NVIDIA DGX Spark (base) ~$3,999 USD
DGX Spark Founders Edition (current pricing) ~$4,699 USD

That's a big nope from me

Definite nope for me at those price points either, but I can only imagine it will find a market with the local AI crowd.

 

[Xtm]

Nvidia always greedy. right time before AI dies.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I think this product is interesting. It will rollout as a premium product and in time trickle down to lower-end systems. However, I can predict something. There are way too many signs that PC is trending downwards. This could still change, it can swing. The problem AI, or rather ML, computes is growing, and it is growing within investor circles. Home consumers are an ever growing irrelevance, though it is by design. Products like these could potentially become nodes, meaning a distributed network, meaning crowd-sourced devices, almost mesh like. There is a datacentre problem to drive AI demand, there is an energy problem to address that demand, so... why not use the consumers? Torreting was such a noble invention

I would very much dislike it, but the signs are there.