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This week NVIDIA introduced Project DIGITS, a computer small enough to hold in one hand, but powerful enough that the company calls it the “world’s smallest AI Supercomputer.” Powered by an NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell “Superchip,” NVIDIA says the computer delivers up to a petaflop of AI performance without relying on cloud servers.
With a $3,000 price tag and a target audience of developers, the DIGITS computer isn’t really design for mainstream use. But NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says the computer’s ARM-based CPU could eventually make its way to more mainstream PCs.
The DIGITS PC gets its AI powers from an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, but it also features an NVIDIA Grace CPU designed in collaboration with MediaTek. That chip is a 20-core processor based on ARM architecture.
According to Reuters, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said during a recent presentation to investors that NVIDIA or MediaTek could bring that CPU to market as chip that could be used in other computers. And while he hasn’t confirmed that this will happen, he says NVIDIA does “have plans” for the desktop computer CPU… although his statements are rather vague at the moment.
As for the Project DIGITS PC, it’s not expected to ship until May, 2025. So it’ll probably be a while before we see any other computers featuring the CPU.
But a computer with this 20-core ARM processor and a less powerful GPU and less than 128GB of unified memory would probably cost a lot less than $3,000. And while the DIGITS PC ships with a Linux-based operating system called NVIDIA DGX OS, rumor has it that we could see Windows on ARM PCs with non-Qualcomm chips in the coming year. So it’s interesting to see MediaTek getting into the high-performance CPU space.