TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) 鈥� Nvidia on Monday unveiled new powerful chips that would bring advanced artificial intelligence functions into laptops and desktop computers, with the new personal computer models from brands including Microsoft and Dell set to roll out later this year.
While Santa Clara, California-based has already been massively successful in supplying high-end chips for data centers riding the worldwide AI demand boom, it is plotting different plans to expand its presence across AI systems and products.
Jensen Huang, the Taiwanese American founder and CEO of Nvidia, made the announcement at the annual Nvidia GTC event. Microsoft and Nvidia 鈥渁re going to reinvent the PC (personal computer),鈥� he said in his keynote speech.
鈥淭his is going to be the new PC,鈥� Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia鈥檚 RTX Spark superchip 鈥� which combines CPU, or central processing unit, and GPU, or graphics processing unit, capabilities 鈥� that would power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models in what the company called 鈥淎I personal computers,鈥� expected to debut in the fall of this year.
Nvidia is already the world鈥檚 most valuable company, ahead of Apple, Google鈥檚 parent Alphabet and Microsoft. Its new superchips for PCs will challenge chipmaking rivals including Intel and AMD. Nvidia’s shares were up nearly 4% in early U.S. trading, while Intel and AMD both fell more than 3%.
The company said it will be 鈥渞einventing the personal computer鈥� for creating and gaming. 鈥淲hen it has an autonomous (AI) agent, an agent that鈥檚 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 could do a lot more,鈥� Huang said.
Microsoft said in a separate statement that the personal computers running on Nvidia鈥檚 RTX Spark superchips would be able to support 鈥渉ighly capable AI models鈥� and complex workloads. With the new superchips, these personal computers can run AI agents locally, Nvidia said.
鈥淭his is the first across the lineup of PC reinvention for 40 years,鈥� said Huang.
Nvidia鈥檚 move is significant at a time when demand is growing for the use of personal AI agents, said Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at the technology research and advisory group Omdia.
鈥淔or consumers, it means more choices, which is always a good thing,鈥� Su said.
Neil Shah, analyst and co-founder of Counterpoint Research, described Nvidia鈥檚 announcement as a move that鈥檚 鈥渞evolutionizing how PCs would look like in the next 10 years.鈥�
The new laptops and desktop computers 鈥渨ill drive agentic AI applications in every home,鈥� Shah said, with an aim of having an 鈥淎I supercomputer鈥� in each household.
Also during Monday鈥檚 speech, Nvidia鈥檚 Huang said its new Vera CPUs for data centers are in full production and are 鈥済oing to be our new major growth driver鈥� on the boom of AI agents, with early customers including Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.
Huang also revealed a humanoid robot reference design that could act as a blueprint for future research, especially within the higher education sector. Nvidia said its 鈥淚saac GR00T鈥� stands nearly six feet tall and has the humanoid chassis of Chinese robot maker Unitree鈥檚 H2. It is equipped with five-fingered dexterous hands, made by Singapore-based robotics startup Sharpa, that are capable of finely controlled movements.
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Chan reported from Hong Kong.
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