Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hints at ‘plans’ for its own desktop CPU

It’s agelong been rumored that Nvidia is readying to break into the user CPU marketplace successful 2025, and we whitethorn person already had our first look astatine its caller processor.

On Monday astatine CES, the institution unveiled Project Digits, a $3,000 individual AI supercomputer powered by a caller GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. Reuters reports that yesterday Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinted to investors and analysts that location are bigger plans for the Arm-based CPU wrong that chip, co-developed pinch MediaTek.

“You know, evidently we person plans,” Huang said during an investor presentation, referring to the caller 20-core desktop CPU, but that he would “wait to show you” what they are.

Co-developer MediaTek has its ain ambitions though, and Huang suggested that it whitethorn besides bring the CPU to market, independent of Nvidia. “Now they could supply that to us, and they could support that for themselves and service the market. And truthful it was a awesome win-win,” Huang said.

Project Digits itself isn’t a mass-market product, costing $3,000 and moving connected a civilization Linux strategy designed specifically for AI developers. But Nvidia’s user CPU ambitions person been rumored since October 2023, erstwhile Reuters reported that the company, alongside rival AMD, was moving connected Arm-based chips to motorboat successful 2025.

Qualcomm has presently cornered the marketplace connected Arm-based CPUs for Windows PCs, boosted by past year’s motorboat of the Snapdragon X Elite processors. Those chips provided the benignant of capacity and powerfulness ratio antecedently only disposable pinch Apple’s MacBooks, and put existent unit connected Intel and AMD’s x86 systems.

2024 was the twelvemonth that Windows connected Arm yet achieved its potential, and pinch accrued title from Nvidia and others, 2025 could people a turning constituent successful the conflict betwixt x86 and Arm.