MediaTek teams up with Nvidia on 'superchip'

Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) Taiwan-based smartphone IC designer MediaTek Inc. announced Tuesday that it has partnered with American artificial intelligence chip designer Nvidia Corp. to develop a personal AI supercomputer "superchip."

In a statement, MediaTek Inc. said it had brought all of its technology know-how to work with Nvidia on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip.

According to Nvidia, Project DIGITS, the personal supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, delivers a petaflop of AI performance in a power-efficient, compact form factor.

"Our collaboration with NVIDIA on the GB10 Superchip aligns with MediaTek's vision of helping make great technology accessible to anyone," MediaTek Vice Chairman and CEO Rick Tsai (蔡力行) said in the statement.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳), who disclosed the cooperation with MediaTek in his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, said in the statement that the partnership is expected to make the Brace Blackwell platform more accessible and allow developers, researchers and students to solve their pressing issues as "The age of AI is here."

MediaTek and Nvidia previously collaborated on the Taiwanese tech firm's Dimensity Auto Cockpit chips, which integrate Nvidia's next-generation graphics processing unit-accelerating AI computing and Nvidia RTX graphics.

In addition, both sides have also teamed up on integrating NVIDIA TAO, an AI model training and optimization toolkit, with MediaTek's NeuroPilot SDK, a collection of software tools and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), to deliver advanced edge AI capabilities to Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

At CES, Huang demonstrated Nvidia Cosmos, a platform comprising state-of-the-art generative world foundation models, advanced tokenizers, guardrails and an accelerated video processing pipeline built to advance the development of physical AI systems such as autonomous vehicles (AVs) and robots.

"The ChatGPT moment for robotics is coming," Huang said in his keynote speech at the CES. "We created Cosmos to democratize physical AI and put general robotics in reach of every developer."

Huang showcased ways physical AI developers can use Cosmos models, including video search and understanding, physics-based photoreal synthetic data generation, and physical AI model development and evaluation.

Huang also revealed the names of Nvidia's Taiwanese humanoid robot partners, including Kenmec Mechanical Engineering Co, Pegatron Corp. and Solomon Technology Corp.