If you haven’t heard, Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel . According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, this exciting Nvidia-Intel alliance will create “Intel x86 SoCs that integrate Nvidia GPU chiplets, fusing the world’s best CPU and GPU .” This could be the injection Intel needs to break out of its funk and course-correct its downward trajectory.

But this fusion isn’t just about, say, improving Intel’s Arc integrated graphics . It’s actually a step towards AI PC dominance. Nvidia GPUs have long been the best hardware for local AI workloads, but they’re limited by VRAM. With Intel’s help, Nvidia could finally solve that bottleneck—by developing the same power that Apple has been wielding.

I’m talking about unified memory

Picture a modern desktop PC that’s fitted with an Intel CPU

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