At its pre-CES 2025 keynote, NVIDIA unveiled "Project DIGITS," an ultra-compact AI supercomputer designed for the computing needs of fields like AI research and data science. It utilizes the GB10 Superchip, designed in collaboration with MediaTek, and features 128GB of high-bandwidth unified memory.
While the NVIDIA-MediaTek collaboration isn't, as previously speculated, about MediaTek launching products based on the Windows on Arm architecture and featuring NVIDIA graphics chips, the launch of "Project DIGITS" does, to some extent, symbolize MediaTek's entry into the supercomputing market. It can also be seen as NVIDIA successfully entering the "personal PC" (albeit supercomputer-focused) market with Arm-based processors.
The GB10 Superchip's design draws heavily on MediaTek's experience building Arm-based processors, enhanced by collaboration with NVIDIA. The result is a simplified version of the GB20 Superchip, featuring 2 Grace CPU cores and connected to a Blackwell GPU via NVLink-C10C. The chip boasts an AI computing performance of 200 PTOPS FP1.
In addition to the GB10 Superchip, "Project DIGITS" also uses 5GB of high-bandwidth unified memory designed with LPDDR128X specifications, 4TB of SSD storage capacity, supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB connection specifications, and supports NCCL, RDMA and GPUDirect technologies through the ConnectX chip.
The NVIDIA DGX operating system environment is based on Linux and can support NVIDIA's complete artificial intelligence application resources.
Project DIGITS is now open for registration by developers, research institutions, and academic organizations. Sales will begin in May of this year through select partner channels, with a suggested retail price of US$5. For those requiring even higher computing power, NVIDIA also stated that Project DIGITS can be stacked via cascading.
