Nvidia will release chip products for laptop PCs this year.
According to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on the 22nd (local time), Nvidia plans to unveil system-on-chip (SOC) products for laptops in separate collaborations with U.S. Intel and Taiwan's MediaTek. The developed chips are reportedly set to be installed in laptops from U.S. Dell and China's Lenovo.
An SOC is an integrated component that combines a central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and artificial intelligence (AI) processor into a single chip. The WSJ said this SOC collaboration will proceed with Nvidia handling GPU and AI technology and Intel and MediaTek taking on the CPU institutional sector. Nvidia–Intel chips and Nvidia–MediaTek chips will be released separately.
The WSJ analyzed that while this laptop chip business may not generate large revenue for Nvidia, it is significant as a means to maintain touchpoints between the company and consumers at a time when portable electronics such as laptops and smartphones are rapidly becoming AI devices.
Nvidia's SOC is built into Nintendo's Switch and Switch 2 game consoles. It has also been used in Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS) tablet "Surface." The WSJ predicted that because Nvidia is well-known among consumers as a gaming hardware company, the success or failure of this laptop SOC could hinge on how well it runs blockbuster games.