With all of the RTX 50-series chatter popping out of CES 2025, it is likely to be straightforward to overlook that we have been hoping for Nvidia to announce one thing else this 12 months: specifically, an all-Nvidia Arm laptop computer chip. On that entrance, it appears we now lastly have affirmation that such a factor is within the works and seemingly simply across the nook.
According to HardwareLuxx, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed throughout a Q&A that Nvidia is working with MediaTek to create an end-user system on a chip (SoC) primarily based on the just-announced Project Digits mini home-user AI supercomputer. An “end-user system” would presumably imply a cellular chip that may very well be utilized in a laptop computer.
Huang reportedly mentioned: “We’re going to make this a mainstream product. We’ll assist it with all of the issues that we do to assist skilled and high-quality software program, and the PC (producers) will make it accessible to finish customers.”
Given the context, by “this”, Huang presumably means the GB10 chip on the coronary heart of the Project Digits mini supercomputer, although seemingly with totally different core configurations, GPU core counts, and so forth. In different phrases, it looks as if he is saying we’ll be seeing a (presumably scaled-back) model of this SoC hitting the end-user market, by way of PC producers.
The GB10 SoC within the Project Digits supercomputer—like a GB100, sans a zero, geddit?—incorporates a Blackwell GPU able to one petaFLOP of FP4 AI compute and a Grace CPU with 20 Arm cores, plus 128 GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence and as much as 4 TB of NVMe storage.
The GB10, Nvidia says, is the “world’s Smallest AI Supercomputer Capable of Running 200B-Parameter Models”. It’s primarily for college students, researchers, and hobbyists to check out highly effective native AI that type of replicates cloud-based AI, and all this runs on a Linux-based DGX working system.
The GB10 is far more highly effective than the Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano that Nvidia introduced in December 2024, which is barely able to 67 INT8 TOPS. Project Digits is far more worthy of the “supercomputer” identify, and that is in all probability why it prices $3,000 whereas Jetson Orin Nano prices simply $249.
The concept that Nvidia would possibly make an end-user SoC with Arm CPU cores in collaboration with MediaTek is not new. In reality, it is one of many issues we have been enthusiastic about doubtlessly seeing in 2025, because it may imply getting our arms on an all-Nvidia laptop computer. We’d heard rumours of such chips going into manufacturing in 2025 since at the least November final 12 months, and we would even heard speak of the primary such SoC having RTX 4070 cellular and Strix Halo-level efficiency.
Of course, all that efficiency speak remains to be hypothesis, however it appears that evidently what’s not hypothesis now could be that Nvidia’s engaged on bringing an Nvidia x MediaTek SoC to market as a “mainstream product.” And now that we have now the precise GB10 chip that may act as a springboard for client chips, we’d not have to attend too lengthy.
HardwareLuxx mentions Computex 2025 (on the finish of May) as a potential time for Nvidia to introduce such end-user cellular chips, and this would possibly make sense. Nothing particular, in fact, however this is hoping.
