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David Pierce

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The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Right.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Like kind of all at once, just just lapped everybody in terms of what you can expect out of your laptop.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

What I'm trying to figure out is what NVIDIA is trying to do here, right?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Because NVIDIA obviously has lots of stuff to talk about when it comes to AI, has lots of stuff to talk about when it comes to video games, lots of stuff to sell you on both of those fronts, too.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

But it's also, like you said, trying to do a very mainstream computer chip.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And Jensen Long, the NVIDIA CEO, was even talking about lower-end laptops.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Like, what is your sense of what NVIDIA's game is here?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Is it just complete chip domination because it's NVIDIA and that's what it wants?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Or is it trying to do something specific here?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

NVIDIA, by the way, even at one point made a pretty big mobile play.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Like you said, with the Switch, that's running a smartphone chip.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

interesting and i do think a that is a good outcome for the world that we do more ai processing on the edge on our devices like there are just a lot of reasons that's a good thing and i think a lot of people are hopeful that that's where this lands that rather than have everything happen in data centers and in the cloud that actually your device just starts to do things um

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

What I am struggling to figure out, though, is if I'm NVIDIA, right, and I have this big giant goal to sort of own the whole AI future, which I think it does.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

I don't think that is a particularly huge overstatement for what NVIDIA is trying to do right now.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

at what point does NVIDIA just make Windows, right?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Like I'm looking at this and it's like, okay, NVIDIA is launching a chip.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And it's like, okay, if you're going to launch a chip because you want to be in laptops, because you think normal everyday laptops are going to become AI machines.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And I think you're right that NVIDIA does think that.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And Jensen even talked about, you know, there's this new interface that's coming.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

We're going to interact with our computers in different ways.