Project Digits, inspired by Nvidia’s DGX 100 server design, is powered by the Grace Blackwell Superchip, emphasizing AI advancements. Although not a mass-market product, it caters to AI developers. Speculation about Nvidia entering the consumer CPU market has been ongoing since October 2023, with reports of Nvidia and AMD working on Arm-based chips for a 2025 launch. With Qualcomm's success in the Windows-on-Arm space, Nvidia or MediaTek could potentially fill the demand for powerful consumer-grade Arm chips.
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinted at broader ambitions for the Arm-based CPU within the GB10 Grace Blackwell chip, developed with MediaTek.
- Project Digits, a $3,000 desktop AI supercomputer introduced by Nvidia, offers 1 PFLOPS of FP4 floating-point performance and is powered by the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip.
- The Grace Blackwell chip features 20 high-performance cores, 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 4TB NVMe SSD, designed for demanding AI tasks.
- Speculation about Nvidia entering the consumer CPU market has been circulating, with potential competition from Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series CPUs in the Windows-on-Arm space.