The Taiwanese edition of Economic News Daily claims that MediaTek will join forces with NVIDIA to develop a PC processor with artificial intelligence support. The new chip will compete with Apple's M4 processors. It is expected that the Arm-based architecture will be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. The collaboration between MediaTek and NVIDIA and the latter's entry into the ARM processor market for PCs have the potential to significantly change the market.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang will visit Taiwan at the Taipei International Computer Show COMPUTEX on June 2. During this visit, MediaTek plans to disclose details about the processor development. Both sides will leverage their own advantages in its creation: combining NVIDIA's powerful graphics processors with MediaTek's experience in ARM architecture development will reduce the processor development time and deliver an energy-efficient and high-performance AI-supported solution for PCs.
The processor being developed will be manufactured using TSMC's 3-nanometer technology process. It is expected that development will be completed in the third quarter, with testing taking place next, and mass production starting in the first half of 2025.
The website Wccftech adds that the estimated cost of the new chip is $300. It also notes that financial analyst Dan Nystedt previously wrote that TSMC will use CoWoS (Chip-on-wafer-on-substrate) packaging for the processor jointly developed by MediaTek and NVIDIA.
The new chip can be expected to deliver outstanding performance in graphics and AI processing, as NVIDIA is a clear leader in both areas. While MediaTek's latest smartphone processor has cooling and throttling issues, for laptops and PCs with more powerful cooling systems, this is not as much of a problem.
NVIDIA and MediaTek have already started collaborating in the automotive sector almost a year ago. The goal is to create an automotive chip with improved graphics and AI capabilities.
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