Nvidia chief executive officer claims firm has prepare for desktop computer chip created with MediaTek

By Stephen Nellis

(Reuters) -Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang claimed on Tuesday that MediaTek will certainly have the ability to market the desktop computer central processing unit chip both firms introduced previously today which Nvidia has unrevealed future prepare for the chip.

On Monday at CES 2025, Nvidia introduced a desktop called Project NUMBERS. The equipment makes use of Nvidia’s newest “Blackwell” AI chip and will certainly set you back $3,000, however it likewise includes a brand-new central processing unit, or CPU, on which Nvidia collaborated with MediaTek to develop.

Responding to an expert’s concern throughout a financier discussion, Huang claimed Nvidia touched MediaTek to co-design an energy-efficient CPU that can be marketed a lot more commonly.

“Now they could provide that to us, and they could keep that for themselves and serve the market. And so it was a great win-win,” Huang claimed.

Reuters has actually formerly reported that Nvidia is servicing a CPU for computers that would certainly test Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm, which presently control the marketplace for computer systems made use of by customers and companies.

The Project DIGITS computer system is not yet a mass-market tool. It runs a Linux- based running system from Nvidia that is made use of by AI programmers, and Huang informed experts those programmers are Nvidia’s target audience with Project NUMBERS.

But Huang claimed Nvidia has more prepare for its desktop computer CPU that he decreased to reveal.

“What else can I do with it? I’m gonna have to wait to tell you that,” Huang claimed. “You know, obviously we have plans.”

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis)