Nvidia’s Project DIGITS puts AI supercomputing chips on the desktop – Computerworld

Microsoft Link has 8GB of RAM, no local storage, and an unspecified Intel processor without any special AI capabilities: if you want to use Windows Copilot features, they, like everything else, will run in the cloud. The Link will retail for around $350 when it goes on sale in April.

One socket, one petaflops

Project DIGITS, on the other hand, will cost over $3,000 when it releases in May. For this money, buyers will receive 4 TB of NVMe storage, 128 GB of unified low-power DDR5X system memory and the new Grace Blackwell GB10 super chip; it features 20 ARM cores in the Grace processor and a mix of CUDA cores, RT cores, and fifth-generation Tensor Cores in the Blackwell GPU.

Together, these cores deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI processing performance—enough, Burgoyne says, to run a 200 billion-parameter model locally at “FP4” accuracy without the need for the cloud. By connecting two Project DIGITS devices together via built-in ConnectX network chips, he says, it is possible to work with models with 400 billion parameters.