MediaTek and Nvidia are gearing up to tackle the AI PC market hand-in-hand, with an all-new chip

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for quite some time now. However, events have taken an interesting turn, with claims that the chip is being created in collaboration with MediaTek and could be ready for shipping in 2025., in which it states that the overall design has already been finalized, with full completion being achieved by the end of 2024. MediaTek and Nvidia have previously worked on

But why would Nvidia and MediaTek be choosing to enter the PC market now, rather than sticking to other markets? First of all, 2024 has become the, if one is to believe AMD, Intel, and Microsoft—they're all on board with AI, either in the form of NPU or generative AI software tools. Nvidia is very much an artificial intelligence company these days, earning billions of dollars every quarter from sales of its H100 mega-chips.

As to what we can expect from MediaTek and Nvidia is unclear at this stage, though UDN reports that the chip will be manufactured by TSMC, using its N3 process node, and that the unit price could be as high as $300. I suspect that these will only be sold directly to OEM and system builders, for laptops andKeep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

One thing is certain, though. If Intel was hoping to have an easy time of things holding on to its dominance of the PC market, then it will need to have something special lined up to combat what AMD, Qualcomm, and now MediaTek-Nvidia are bringing to the table. More competition is good news for us because not only do we get more choices, but it should also result in more palatable prices. Well, one can hope, at the very least.

 

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