Nvidia plans to offer machines built by the likes of Lenovo Group, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies that are better adapted to running AI-powered software and agents. Nvidia calls its new RTX Spark a “superchip” because it fuses two things into one package: a CPU, the brain that runs a personal computer, and a GPU, the graphics engine Nvidia originally built for video games that turned out to be so good at AI that it now powers data centres.
Gamers who long ago coveted Nvidia Corp’s graphics cards because they rendered computer games so beautifully will soon be eyeing new Windows computers that plug that technology right into a laptop’s brain.
Nvidia’s latest effort to diversify itself from the monumentally successful business of selling chips for artificial-intelligence servers is to offer consumers and businesses an alternative to notebooks with “Intel inside”. It’s a smart hedge for Nvidia. Whether the computers will be a smart buy for you is far less certain.
