Nvidia CEO says company has plans for desktop chip designed with MediaTek (updated)

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07/01/2025 21:20

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    By Stephen Nellis
       Jan 7 (Reuters) - Nvidia  NVDA.O  Chief Executive Jensen
Huang said on Tuesday that MediaTek  2454.TW  will be able to
sell the desktop central processor chip the two companies
unveiled earlier this week and that Nvidia has undisclosed
future plans for the chip.
    On Monday at CES 2025, Nvidia unveiled a desktop computer
called Project DIGITS. The machine uses Nvidia's latest
"Blackwell" AI chip and will cost $3,000, but it also contains a
new central processor, or CPU, on which Nvidia worked with
MediaTek to create.
    Responding to an analyst's question during an investor
presentation, Huang said Nvidia tapped MediaTek to co-design an
energy-efficient CPU that could be sold more widely.
    "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 said.
    Reuters has previously reported that Nvidia is working on a
CPU for personal computers that would challenge Intel  INTC.O ,
Advanced Micro Devices  AMD.O  and Qualcomm  QCOM.O , which
currently dominate the market for computers used by consumers
and businesses. 
    The Project DIGITS computer is not yet a mass-market device.
It runs a Linux-based operating system from Nvidia that is used
by AI developers, and Huang told analysts those developers are
Nvidia's target market with Project DIGITS.
    But Huang said Nvidia has further plans for its desktop CPU
that he declined to disclose. 
    "What else can I do with it? I'm gonna have to wait to tell
you that," Huang said. "You know, obviously we have plans."

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