Nvidia unveils new superchip to bring AI functions into personal computers

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Nvidia has unveiled a powerful chip that would bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) functions into laptops and desktop computers, with new personal computer models from brands including Microsoft and Dell set to roll out later this year.

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia has already been massively successful in supplying high-end chips for data centres riding the worldwide AI demand boom. It’s also plotting different plans to expand its presence across AI systems and products.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s Taiwanese-American founder and CEO, made the announcement Monday in Taipei at the annual Nvidia GTC event.

Microsoft and Nvidia “are going to reinvent the PC [personal computer],” he said in his keynote speech.

“This is going to be the new PC,” Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip. It combines central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) capabilities that would power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models in what the company called “AI personal computers,” expected to debut this fall.

Nvidia is already the world’s most valuable company, ahead of Apple, Google’s parent Alphabet and Microsoft.

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The company said it aims to reinvent the PC 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…

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