Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
Nvidia has announced the RTX Spark, a new PC chip that marks the company's entry into the consumer computing market. While Nvidia claims it is the most efficient chip ever built, the company has yet to provide technical data to support this assertion.
Why it matters
This move signals a major shift in the semiconductor industry, as Nvidia challenges established giants like Intel and Qualcomm in the consumer laptop space.
This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip - not just graphics - into the very heart of laptops and mini-PCs. After many months of leaks , it's finally announcing the RTX Spark, the first in a family of chips that will meet or beat the most powerful thin-and-light Windows machines ever, it claims. "This is the most efficient PC chip ever built," says Nvidia senior director of product management Mark Aevermann - without sharing so much as a single statistic or chart to back that up. The RTX Spark is effectively the same GB10 chip that's in the DGX … Read the full story at The Verge.
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