{"text":[[{"start":11.2,"text":"Nvidia will launch a PC “superchip” this year as the semiconductor giant goes head-to-head with Apple, Qualcomm, Intel and AMD for the first time. "}],[{"start":21.4,"text":"Computer makers including Dell, Asus and HP will use what Nvidia claims is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, paired with Microsoft’s Windows software, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang announced on Monday. "}],[{"start":36.75,"text":"The launch marks a major competitive shift in the consumer PC industry and a new business line for $5.1tn Nvidia."}],[{"start":45,"text":"The company, best known for its dominance of semiconductors for AI infrastructure, is pushing beyond its traditional graphics cards into integrated chips that power the whole PC. Lenovo, Microsoft, Acer and Taiwan’s MSI will also use the product. "}],[{"start":62.4,"text":"Huang was in Taipei on Monday to deliver a keynote speech at the Computex conference to announce the company’s latest moves in AI. "}],[{"start":70.7,"text":"Nvidia said its RTX Spark Superchip was purpose-built to run AI agents that can work proactively across apps and run in the background as a personal “teammate”. The chipmaker aims to take advantage of an expected windfall from consumers looking to upgrade ageing devices to be able to use the latest AI applications, which strain older hardware. "}],[{"start":92.35,"text":"Nvidia’s new chip incorporates its Blackwell RTX graphics processing unit with a Grace central processing unit, promising all-day battery life while running multibillion-parameter AI models locally on the device. It was designed with Taiwanese chip company MediaTek and will be manufactured by TSMC."}],[{"start":112.1,"text":"Huang said Nvidia was reimagining the PC “for the first time in 40 years”, with responsive AI agents displacing the mouse and keyboard as the primary way that people interact with their computers."}],[{"start":123.64999999999999,"text":"“It took this long to completely reinvent how the PC is going to work,” Huang said, with Nvidia and Microsoft working together for three years on the project."}],[{"start":135.6,"text":"The initial devices with Microsoft, which will be available later this year, are aimed at a “premium” segment of PC users such as AI developers, creators and gamers. But Nvidia said it would ultimately form part of a family of about 30 laptops and more than 10 desktop PCs aimed at consumers of all types."}],[{"start":154,"text":"Huang envisioned a future in 10 years when consumers have “AI supercomputers in your house, running agents and assistants” which are connected to security cameras, TVs, lawnmowers and dishwashers to automate tasks."}],[{"start":167.7,"text":"Apple’s M5 chip, launched late last year in its newest MacBooks, is widely seen as the leading consumer laptop processor chip, equipped to run AI apps locally on a device. Qualcomm joined the competition in 2023 with its Snapdragon X Elite processor, challenging Intel and AMD, which have historically dominated PC chips."}],[{"start":189.39999999999998,"text":"Four companies — Lenovo, HP, Dell and Apple — accounted for 73 per cent of global PC shipments in the first quarter of 2026, according to research and advisory firm Gartner. Asus and Acer had 6.7 per cent and 6.4 per cent, respectively, while Microsoft represented an even smaller slice."}],[{"start":210.2,"text":"Microsoft launched its AI-branded Copilot PCs in 2024, but the products proved a flop. They provoked consumer backlash over a planned “Recall” feature that took snapshots of the user’s activity over time, forcing the company to make major changes to the feature."}],[{"start":227.25,"text":"Huang’s keynote address in Taiwan came just hours after the US commerce department issued new guidance aimed at closing a loophole that may have allowed Chinese tech companies access to Nvidia’s AI chips."}],[{"start":240.1,"text":"The guidance clarified that shipping Nvidia’s AI chips to subsidiaries outside China still required a licence for groups with headquarters in China."}],[{"start":249.45,"text":"Tech groups such as Alibaba and ByteDance have turned to data centres in south-east Asia to navigate around US export controls, the FT reported last year."}],[{"start":268.55,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1780297544_4005.mp3"}