Thanks to Nvidia, there’s a new generation of PCs coming, and they’ll be running Linux [Video]

I know, I know: “Year of the Linux desktop … yadda, yadda.” You’ve heard it all before. But now there’s a Linux-powered PC that many people will want: Nvidia’s Project Digits, a desktop with AI supercomputer power that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro.

Powered by MediaTek and Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell Superchip, Project DIGITS is a $3,000 personal AI that combines Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU built on the Arm architecture. It’s one impressive chip. It can deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision and support 200-billion-parameter large language models.

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At CES, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed plans to make this technology available to everyone, not just AI developers. “We’re going to make this a mainstream product,” Huang said. His statement suggests that Nvidia and MediaTek are positioning themselves to challenge established …