Au CES 2025NVIDIA, through its CEO Jensen Huang, has formalized its desire to enter the PC market with SoC Armin accordance with previous rumors! NVIDIA will not do it alone, but in collaboration with the Taiwanese MediaTek. The veil has been lifted on “Project Digits”, a mini desktop PC reminiscent of the NUC format intended primarily for AI (well let’s see, what a surprise) and integrating a “superchip” Grace Blackwell GB10 !
Designed with MediaTekthis brings together within the same assembly a CPU part with the unusual configuration of 10 Arm Cortex-X925 “performance” cores and 10 Arm Cortex-A725 “efficient” cores, and a GPU part based on the Blackwell architecture (like the RTX 50). All complemented by a rather large memory interface. Contrary to what the name “Grace” might have implied, NVIDIA is not using custom Arm cores here, but ready-to-use and among the most recent Arm designs. Unfortunately, details are still lacking, particularly for the configuration of the GPU part. A rumor from Taiwan claims that the GB10 SoC is based on TSMC’s N3 (3nm) process. This would be a first, since NVIDIA has so far not yet exceeded 4 nm (N4) with its existing major solutions, not even with the RTX 50.
Be careful, the machine “Project DIGITS” does not target the general public. It will incidentally cost the modest sum of $3,000, the price to pay for what NVIDIA presents as a “personal AI supercomputer”. This works with an OS based on Linux used primarily by AI developers, who are the main target to start with, NVIDIA believes it can use it as a ramp to bridge the gap between Linux and the Windows ecosystem, particularly for AI, without going into too much detail. its current form is also potentially “too much” to be used as is in a mainstream PC. But NVIDIA has already confirmed that it is working on one (or more) variants for the general public:
We’re going to make it a mainstream product. We will back it with everything we do to support professional, high-quality software, and PC makers will make it available to end users.
But here too, he did not go into detail. The CEO simply pointed out that NVIDIA does have plans in terms of CPU desktopespecially for OEMs, but that he will still wait a little before sharing them. Oh, what a seducer! In the meantime, we must also remember that MediaTek will be able to use and market the GB10 chip that the company helped NVIDIA to design for its own solutions. It remains to be seen what types of solutions will be favored to integrate NVIDIA’s Arm CPU(s). Notebooks and/or mini PCs seem to be the most obvious choices. NVIDIA will perhaps be able to say more in a few months and why not in May, during Computex 2025. In any case, there is no doubt that AMD and Intel, but also Qualcomm will follow this affair up close. (Source: Reuters, Computerbase, Hardwareluxx)
