Nvidia and MediaTek Develop RTX-Doped ARM Processor for PCs..

[sanjay kumar]

The two companies are joining forces to develop a benchmark platform mixing ARM cores and RTX generation GPUs. What to take off the performance of Chromebooks?

GPU giant Nvidia and Taiwanese SoC specialist for mobiles and other electronic devices MediaTek announced yesterday that they are developing a common PC platform.

With the ambition to " develop a new class of notebooks ", the partnership will begin with the development of a reference platform running on Linux, Chrome OS and with SDKs from Nvidia.

On the CPU side, it is obviously ARM with MediaTek's know-how in integration into an all-in-one chip. But more surprisingly, Nvidia announces for the first time integrating its RTX cores for the GPU part.

A technology that the brand has so far never declined in "mobile". Like AMD which sold an RDNA GPU license to Samsung, Nvidia is teaming up with an ARM player to change the graphics game.

A first for Nvidia, which had so far gone it alone with the different versions of its Tegra (a version of the modified X1 propels the Nintendo Switch).

Besides the partnership of technology integration (IP in the jargon) Nvidia in a third-party chip, the choice to communicate on an RTX GPU is important.

For the time being, in “normal” version at least, this is the most efficient GPU architecture for calculations linked to AI and in terms of ray-tracing. Faced with the x86 SoCs from Intel and AMD, Nvidia and MediaTek could have their cards to play.

Nvidia has not released a development schedule to determine when the first tests, or even the first chips, would be available...