Earlier yesterday during his Computex keynote, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, spoke broadly about how AI - a recurring theme you've no doubt figured out for the rest of the year - and its RTX GPUs will play a pivotal role in bringing Microsoft Copilot+ to gaming laptops. Interestingly, the first four gaming laptops to be getting the RTX AI treatment will be from ASUS and MSI.
Based on Jensen's presentation, one of the shots showed off three ASUS laptops and one MSI laptop. One that we found particularly interesting was with the ASUS TUF series and more specifically, a brief exposure of the TUF 14. While it is exciting that the series is getting Copilot+ support, one of the other takeaways here is that ASUS is launching a 14-inch variant of the more budget-friendly lineup.
Moving along, NVIDIA's list also includes the usual suspects from ASUS, such as the ROG Zephyrus G16 and ProArt laptop, and with MSI, that Copilot+ support is is available to the Stealth 16 AI+. NVIDIA's announcement of RTX AI-powered laptops also points to a broader, if not deeper malady it is trying to address: remaining relevant in the world of AI, especially with the wider market shift towards NPUs for AI-driven solutions and applications. The wider message it's basically trying to tell the world is that its GPUs are more capable at running heavier AI workloads when compared to an NPU. After all, it's why HPC GPUs like Blackwell exists.
For another matter, NVIDIA is also taking the initiative to make its own AI chips, as we've previously reported. There's little information on this still but as Michael Dell and Jensen had said in their interview with Bloomberg, we'll just have to check back with them next year.