Increased collaboration with Nvidia Corp. has pushed investor optimism over the AI growth potential for MediaTek Inc. to a new level, putting its shares on track for their first record high in seven months.

INCREASED collaboration with Nvidia has pushed investor optimism over the artificial intelligence (AI) growth potential for MediaTek to a new level, putting its shares on track for their first record high in seven months.

According to industry sources, Nvidia and MediaTek are broadening their collaboration to include core chips for Nintendo's Switch 2 gaming consoles, following their partnership in developing AI supercomputer chips.

The Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip demonstrates the successful collaboration between MediaTek and Nvidia, highlighting the strong foundation of mutual trust between both companies, according to MediaTek corporate SVP Jerry Yu.

The supercomputer will cost about $3,000 when it becomes available in May, Nvidia said, and will be available from the company itself as well as some of its manufacturing partners. Huang said Project Digits is a placeholder name, indicating it may change by the time the computer goes on sale.

According to HardwareLuxx, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed during a Q&A that Nvidia is working with MediaTek to create an end-user system on a chip (SoC) based on the just-announced Project Digits mini home-user AI supercomputer. An "end-user system" would presumably mean a mobile chip that could be used in a laptop.

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has hinted that the company has plans to release an Arm-based desktop CPU, but details are scarce.

Nvidia revealed a $3,000 mini computer for AI developers at CES in Las Vegas this week. TakeAway Points: This week, Nvidia unveiled a $3,000 tiny PC for AI developers. For the time being, it is known as Project Digits and is built around the GB10 Nvidia chip.

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Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) chief Jensen Huang said Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek could sell the desktop central processor chip the two companies revealed this week. On Monday at CES 2025,

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 US$3 000, but it also contains a new CPU on which Nvidia worked with MediaTek to create.