It’s lengthy been rumored that Nvidia is planning to interrupt into the patron CPU market in 2025, and we could have already had our first have a look at its new processor.
On Monday at CES, the corporate unveiled Challenge Digits, a $3,000 private AI supercomputer powered by a brand new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. Reuters stories that yesterday Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinted to buyers and analysts that there are larger plans for the Arm-based CPU inside that chip, codeveloped with MediaTek.
“You understand, clearly we’ve got plans,” Huang mentioned throughout an investor presentation, referring to the brand new 20-core desktop CPU however mentioned that he would “wait to let you know” what they’re.
Codeveloper MediaTek has its personal ambitions, although, and Huang advised that it could additionally deliver the CPU to market, impartial of Nvidia. “Now they might present that to us, and so they might preserve that for themselves and serve the market. And so it was an excellent win-win,” Huang mentioned.
Challenge Digits itself isn’t a mass-market product, costing $3,000 and operating on a customized Linux system designed particularly for AI builders. However Nvidia’s client CPU ambitions have been rumored since October 2023, when Reuters reported that the corporate, alongside rival AMD, was engaged on Arm-based chips to launch in 2025.
Qualcomm has at the moment cornered the market on Arm-based CPUs for Home windows PCs, boosted by final 12 months’s launch of the Snapdragon X Elite processors. These chips offered the type of efficiency and energy effectivity beforehand solely obtainable with Apple’s MacBooks — and put actual stress on Intel and AMD’s x86 techniques.
