David Pierce

Finally, some big news for me in particular.

Nintendo Music, which until now has just been a mobile app for listening to soundtracks from your favorite Nintendo games, is now a web app and supports CarPlay, which means I will be driving to the Mario Kart soundtrack for the rest of my life.

You can read more about all of this at TheVerge.com.

That's it.

That's 90 Seconds on The Verge for Tuesday, June 2nd.

All right, let's switch gears now and talk about chips.

The Verge's Sean Hollister.

Welcome to the show.

Hi, glad you're back.

We bring you here when I need you to explain whether a chip is any good.

This is one of your jobs here at The Verge is, is this chip any good?

NVIDIA just launched a new chip, the RTX Spark, that I would say it is making some pretty gigantic, grandiose claims about.

But first, let's just back up a little bit.

How big a deal is it that NVIDIA is launching what amounts to a sort of mainstream computer chip?

Well, Apple in 2020 strikes me as like the best case scenario here.

Right.

Because Apple showed up in 2020 and was like, hey, we have these M series chips.

We're not going to tell you anything about them.

Here's a bunch of graphs that don't mean anything.

And then essentially upended the PC industry.