Using the same Blackwell architecture that powers the company’s fastest AI processors for servers and data centres, Nvidia unveiled new chips for desktop and laptop computers on Monday.
The GeForce RTX 50-series processors would be preloaded in laptops that cost between $550 and $2,000 in price. In March, laptops equipped with the chips will begin to be shipped.
The CPUs were announced by Nvidia at CES in Las Vegas, where CEO Jensen Huang gave a keynote speech on Monday.
With a laptop in hand, Huang remarked, “Can you imagine. You have this amazing graphics card, Blackwell, I’m going to shrink it and put it in there.”
Prior to the previous several years, Nvidia was mostly known for selling graphics processing units, or GPUs, to power video games.
However, it has achieved a market valuation of over $3.5 trillion by selling AI processors to major cloud providers and other digital companies. In order to create triangles and polygons fast for 3D games, Nvidia created their first processor in late 1999.
Source (CNBC)