Nvidia enters consumer PC chip market with RTX Spark, claims record efficiency without providing evidence
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Sean Hollister
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Summary
Nvidia is entering the consumer PC chip market with the announcement of the RTX Spark, its first complete computing chip for laptops and mini-PCs. The company claims it will be the most efficient PC chip ever built and will compete with or beat the most powerful thin-and-light Windows machines. However, Nvidia's senior director of product management Mark Aevermann made this bold claim without providing any supporting data, benchmarks, or charts to back it up.
Key quotes
· 1 pulledThis is the most efficient PC chip ever built, says Nvidia senior director of product management Mark Aevermann — without sharing so much as a single statistic or chart to back that up.
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