The Morning After: NVIDIA believes that new chips revolutionize PC

The morning after: NVIDIA believes that its new chip will revolutionize PCs

NASA also ends a Mars mission and Metamorphology is still creepy. It was a busy week as Computex and Microsoft Build were only two of the numerous major events that are currently taking place. The biggest news of both was probably NVIDIA’s brilliant announcement of its RTX Spark system on a chip ... Sorry, I mean “Superchip”. It is an integrated CPU/GPU/RAM unit like AMDs Ryzen AI Max, Qualcomms Snapdragon X2 Elite and Apple Silicon. NVIDIA says it will provide an unprecedented level of AI computing power in a low-power mobile device. RTX Spark is the portable brother of NVIDIA's existing DGX Spark AI Mini desktop, but tailored for Windows-Notebooks and desktops. It combines an ARM CPU manufactured by MediaTek with 20 cores with an integrated NVIDIA GPU with a performance similar to the RTX 5070. Users can order the system with 16 GB to 128 GB of uniform memory, and there is enough bandwidth to join the entire choir. According to NVIDIA, numerous PC manufacturers are pushing to include the RTX Spark in their equipment, especially Microsoft. It announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a 15-inch notebook called Devindra Hardawar by Engadget as “MacBook Pro-Klon”. I'm sure he'll soon invite the Ultra to test, and we'll see if he's worth the whole hype he triggered. Dan Cooper

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