Jensen Huang presented the Project Digits AI supercomputer at CES 2025. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Profimedia
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was welcomed as a superstar at CES 2025 in Las Vegas amid the success of the artificial intelligence boom that has turned Nvidia into the world’s second most valuable company.
During his two-hour speech, Huang surprised the audience with the launch of an innovative product: a compact AI supercomputer, currently called Project Digits, reports CNBC and News.ro.
This revolutionary device is the size of a small cube and is designed for machine learning researchers, small businesses and universities who want to develop advanced AI models without investing billions of dollars in large data centers or expensive cloud services .
“This is an AI supercomputer. It runs the entire Nvidia AI stack and the full range of Nvidia software,” Huang said.
The device is powered by Grace Blackwell graphics processing unit (GPU), combined with an ARM-based Grace central processing unit (CPU), developed in co-development with the Chinese company MediaTek.
Supercomputer AI at the price of 3,000
The supercomputer will have a price of about 3,000 dollars and will be available on the market from May 2025.
It can be used in a standard socket and offers similar performance to the driving systems of the most advanced AI models, which normally require a massive investment.
David Bader, director of the Data Science Institute at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, described Project Digits as a revolutionary opportunity for academia.
“Students who have access to such a system, with a cost similar to a gaming laptop, will be able to develop advanced AI research and models,” he said.
A strategic move by Nvidia
Project Digits represents a strategic shift for Nvidia, which is diversifying its business beyond traditional GPUs used in gaming or data centers. Last quarter, data center sales accounted for 88 percent of the company’s $35 billion in revenue.
Nvidia is exploring new markets, and Ben Reitzes, an analyst at Melius Research, believes the launch of the supercomputer could represent the company’s first step into the $50 billion PC and laptop chip industry.
“We are not ruling out any possibility,” Huang said, suggesting that Nvidia could expand the future of this product to include support for operating systems such as Windows.
