The first rumors regarding NVIDIA’s next processor dedicated to Windows PCs are starting to travel the web, and they provide important clues about the semiconductor giant’s ambitions.
During an interview with Bloomberg, Jensen Huang and Michael Dell, respective leaders of NVIDIA and Dell, have suggested the arrival, as early as next year, of an SoC intended for Windows PCs from NVIDIA. Their intervention intensified speculation on this highly anticipated processor, with the publication of the possible characteristics that it would be equipped with.
First characteristics surface
Thus, the processing part of the chip would be based on Arm’s Cortex-X5 BlackHawk architecture, an NVIDIA Blackwell integrated graphics card, the company’s next superpowerful AI chip, and LPDDR6 memory, all in one box. Concerning the node used, the 3 nm systems from Intel and TSMC are cited, the Taiwanese manufacturer still seeming a logical choice than its American counterpart in view of recent collaborations from NVIDIA.
This chip would, moreover, come from its close collaboration with the company MediaTek, which also manufactures automobile cockpits based on GeForce RTX.
At the end of last year, the very informed press agency Reuters assured that NVIDIA was working on an ARM chip to equip Windows PCs, with a specific focus on artificial intelligence. The objective: to manage to run the models locally without necessarily going through the cloud. These new rumors also tend to lean in this direction.
Demand for AI chips for PCs will drastically increase
Getting into the CPU market makes sense for NVIDIA. The company is one of the big winners in the generative AI boom as more PC makers want to integrate the technology into their devices. The recent announcement of Copilot+ PC by Microsoft proves this.
For the moment, no other details on this new SoC have been specified, such as the power of the NPU, the number of CPU cores or the characteristics of the GPU based on Blackwell. It is still too early to know these details, which NVIDIA should develop in the coming months. One thing is certain: the competition with Qualcomm promises to be fierce. The American giant recently presented its Snapdragon X Elite chips, offering advanced AI capabilities.
Source : VideoCardz
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