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Nvidia, Windows: "A new era of PC. 25.0528, 121.5990"

Nvidia SOC running Windows 11 K2.
Showing the "advancements" they have made optimizing Windows and the Drivers for a "superior" gaming experience.





But its actually about the SOC being really good at AI operations.
 
This is what Claude says

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Claude is a god damn detective. This makes absolute sense. I could see DLSS5 showing up again as well since we can see the framework in the newest driver.
 
The only way I'll be interested is if they manage to make the price way more reasonable and better for the new generations compared to now and not only that but also make future games less demanding while looking better. Don't care it forces DLSS5 in order to achieve this cause I do like how the FFVIII Remake A.I DLSS5 thing looks so I'm fine with that if it's able to get the job done with my two requirements above.
 
The general hub hub seems to imply this is some kind of new partnered SoC.

Geared mainly towards AI probably. Apple is getting a lot of business from AI enthusiasts due to their unified memory architecture. My guess this will have the same along with superior CUDA performance. Currently a lot of folks are buying up older 3090s due to it being a cheap way to get more VRAM and CUDA access. Nvidia needs a newer product to fill that gap.
 
This is so obviously the NVIDIA ARM SoCs for Windows.

something to give Apple's M series a run for their money, plus decent gaming performance.

Who knows, it may also power a new wave of handhelds
 
It's going to be a new Microsoft Surface running on Nvidia's ARM chip? Wording with "new era" makes me wonder if it'll be used in other devices too.
But isn't ARM windows still a shitty experience?
 
So next wave AI PC stuff?

For the 2026 comptex, the recent leaks:
Intel Arc G handheld will reveal at comptex 2026
Nvidia New DLSS features (new dlss 5 demo? recent driver add dlss5 api in RTX50 series)
Windows System update for AI PC & handheld, maybe microsoft will reveal some its new device with the new intel cpu or arm soc?

Nvidia + Microsoft have some joint annoncement: for example, the smarter PC shader deliver tech, dx12 & nvidia gpu; (edited, more like show a windows on arm update for nvidia arm soc)
 
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So next wave AI PC stuff?

Nvidia+Intel SoC (intel cpu + nvidia gpu, support up to 192 gb ram, basically really expansive stuff)
Nvidia New DLSS features (new dlss 5 demo? recent driver add dlss5 api in RTX50 series)
Windows System update for AI PC & handheld (a lot of Intel Arc G handheld will reveal at comptex 2026), maybe microsoft will reveal some its new device with the new intel cpu or arm soc?

Nvidia + Microsoft have some joint annoncement: for example, the smarter PC shader deliver tech, dx12 & nvidia gpu;
No, a fully nVidia made ARM based SoC showing off Windows ARM. Doubt gaming will be focused on much, if at all.
 
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This is what Claude says

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An arm based soc, hasn't this been tried a bunch of times. Sorry but windows gamers and normies aren't going to bite (unless it's a laptop for under $400 which it won't be). Mac users are in a cult so they did but us windows /Linux users have decades of software and games. Arm isn't going to play my 32bit heroes of might and magic 3, wizardry 8, half life 2, 16bit dos games via dos box. I play a lot of classic games and arm means no x86 support except for 64bit software. I seen it on phones when android stopped 32bit and I lost access to 100s of apps I paid for in 1 update, because rhey couldn't be bothered to include the compatability layer (thanks Samsung grrr). So fuck arm. And Ai and, Jensennvidia for being greedy scumbags.
 
It's going to be a new Microsoft Surface running on Nvidia's ARM chip? Wording with "new era" makes me wonder if it'll be used in other devices too.
But isn't ARM windows still a shitty experience?
Yeah, the windows on ARM is not in good situation, it should solve the software compatibility, a lot of windows eco-system software either don't support windows on ARM or run badly.
 
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Future PCs will practically be standalone GPUs with an ARM CPU slapped on the side... Which is what consoles are and what PCs should've evolved into for a long time now.

The DGX spark was just a trial run, those devices could end up everywhere.
F that. They won't run any of my 32bit games and probably not 64bit ones either. I have software I still use going back to dos. I also seen how one update can make you loose all support for 1000s of apps (Google did this with an android update making 32bit and anything before sdk24 unusable, even side loading didn't work). I like having full control, no Ai, no forced bs.
 
Nvidia's announcing new PC hardware a few days after Gamer Nexus made a couple of videos regarding that they want to move the entire world to data centers and stop ownership completely.
 
Nothing so far about windows on ARM gives me confidence that this can succeed any more than Qualcomm did.

Big hype at launch, then everyone admits it was a bit shit 2 months later.
 
Geared mainly towards AI probably. Apple is getting a lot of business from AI enthusiasts due to their unified memory architecture. My guess this will have the same along with superior CUDA performance. Currently a lot of folks are buying up older 3090s due to it being a cheap way to get more VRAM and CUDA access. Nvidia needs a newer product to fill that gap.
What the hell is an Ai enthusiast? You mean there is actually cultists who like Ai slop and killing jobs...while raising prices for electricity, water, memory etc... Gross.
 
What the hell is an Ai enthusiast? You mean there is actually cultists who like Ai slop and killing jobs...while raising prices for electricity, water, memory etc... Gross.

The AI enthusiasts I'm talking about are interested in running AI models locally rather than depending on cloud based data centers. So they contribute to none of that.
 
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