Nividia launches new chips and promises to amaze with Windows

Nvidia presented a new Windows laptop processordesigned to break theIntel’s technological hegemony in this sector and modernize devices for the era ofartificial intelligence (IA). “Microsoft and Nvidia are going to reinvent the PC; this will be the new PC,” he said Jensen HuangCEO of Nvidia, during the autumn launch announcement of RTX Spark al Computex Taipei. The two American tech giants “have meticulously optimized every aspect so that this computer can literally run anything the world has ever created, and more importantly, it can now run AI agents“Huang added.

“If you want to do it digital biology, seismic processing o astrophysicsno problem,” he said. Nvidia is mostly known for its GPUgraphics processing units dedicated to image rendering, particularly for video games, and which more recently have become the powerhouse of artificial intelligence tools, from chatbots to image generators and agents capable of carrying out tasks for users. With governments and companies investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI infrastructure, the market capitalization of the company has exceeded the 5 trillion dollarsmore than the GDP of Japan or India. However, today’s announcement focuses on a new one CPUor central processing unit, which serves as the “brain” of the computer. “This is the first completely redesigned and reinvented PC line in 40 years,” and “there is no doubt that this reinvention of the computer is as significant as the transformation of the telephone into what we know today as a smartphone,” Jensen Huang said. Laptops and desktops equipped with RTX Spark will be available this fallNvidia announced.

New AI features

Nvidia he had already equipped several tablet Windows in the early 2010s. But this new device is positioned as a tool that can easily perform services artificial intelligencelike him agentswhich have the ability to perform tasks on behalf of users.

Impact on the PC market

“Nvidia is bypassing traditional supply chain of PCs to build an end-to-end hardware monopoly,” he told AFP Stephen Wuformer artificial intelligence engineer and investment fund founder Carthage Capital. This announcement of a major development was long overdue in the tech industry, he noted. “Intel and AMD are the immediate victims” of what he analyzes as an “existential threat,” he added.

Performance and memory

According to Wu, “for users of artificial intelligencethis hardware will finally provide the memory bandwidth required to run robust models locally, without latency“. But with the shortage of memory chips which drives up prices in the electronics sector, “the most important issue” is undoubtedly more about the price than the power of the computer components coming onto the market.

Economic impact and jobs

Faced with concerns about the social impact ofIAJensen Huang also dismissed as “complete nonsense” the idea that artificial intelligence will destroy jobs globally. “Indeed, the number of software engineers is on the rise,” he said. “Useful AI has arrived. AI is now a profit engine. AI is now a engine of GDP“he said.