Head out of the cloud: Nvidia's personal-computer shift

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, the wildly different contenders for Los Angeles mayor

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  and Lorem Ipsum text for the corporate world.

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  First up, though.

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  The world's most valuable listed company is having a hell of a year, again.

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  In March, Nvidia announced new chips and AI models

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  and ambitions for space-based data centers, even self-driving cars.

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  But yesterday, Jensen Huang, the firm's leather-jacketed boss, shared what he said was far bigger news.

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  There is no question this reinvention of the computer is as big of a deal

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  as the reinvention of the phone into what we now know as the smartphone.

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  I'm in Taipei this week attending the Computex conference,

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  which is a big conference for AI and semiconductors in Taiwan.

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  During a keynote speech, Jensen Huang brought out two laptops in his hand

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  and basically that signified that in partnership with Microsoft,

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  they have developed chips specifically for the personal computer.

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  So it's a big break for Nvidia from what they're known for,

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  which is making chips for AI in the data center.

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  This is now getting into the personal computer.

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