If we talk about Artificial intelligenceinevitably we have to talk about NVIDIA, the largest manufacturer of AI accelerators, with permission from AMD that with its range AMD Instinct It is making a significant place for itself in many data centers used to train large language models (LLM).
NVIDIA’s presence in Artificial Intelligence is reduced to graphics for the home market and servers. Outside of this field, the company has no presence, however, that does not mean that the company is not working to expand its scope of action to processors.
A rumor has been circulating for several months pointing to an association between NVIDIA and MediaTek to create a processor with ARM architecture to the market. Both companies have been working for several years and the latest fruit of this agreement is a chip for monitors compatible with NVIDIA G-Sync.
Neither of the two companies has confirmed, nor has it denied, that they are working on a new processor for PCs. Once again, you don’t really need to confirm it, since the NVIDIA company has taken care of that through the new communication channel it has created called NVIDIA AI PC.
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November 18, 2024 • 18:00
NVIDIA ARM processors
Beyond the Tegra chip of the nintendo switchNVIDIA’s presence in the processor market is non-existent. With this new communication channel, the company only confirms that it is preparing to launch a processor with ARM architecture to the market.
And we say with ARM architecture and not x86for its association with MediaTek, Qualcomm’s most direct rival in the processor segment with this architecture. At this time, Qualcomm is the only manufacturer that already has equipment on the market, specifically laptops, with ARM processors through the processors Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus.
The next generation of these, Snapdragon Elite, without the X, will mean an important change in terms of performance and graphic power with respect to the current generation, so NVIDIA and MediaTek have to work very well hand in hand to launch a product on the market that is truly a quality alternative to what Qualcomm already offers.
The term IA PC is already being used by both Qualcomm and Intel and amd and refers to the Neural Processing Unit that is found inside, better known as NPU. The NPU is responsible for carrying out Artificial Intelligence tasks locally, without the need to use the graph, so the power it can offer is, initially, irrelevant.
But, if the performance of the NPU is combined with that of the graphics, the performance in AI tasks locally on the computer increases considerably. This type of processor is designed primarily for laptopssince its energy consumption is much lower than that of any dedicated graphics card.
Regarding the date that NVIDIA and MediaTek are considering to officially present this joint project, most rumors point to September 2025.
