Nvidia's new AI chip crams $10,000 of power into a $1,299 CPU

Nvidia just announced a chip that crams $10,000 worth of power into a tiny box that costs just $1,299. The chip, Jetson Xavier, is for robots. "This little computer is going to be the brain of future robots," company co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced at Nvidia's Monday press conference at Computex in Taiwan. "Robots that drive, that fly, that swim, [a robot] that goes underground, that picks strawberries, picks lettuce, picks apples, helps you in the lab, like Jarvis handing you your screwdriver -- this little computer is the brains of future intelligent machines," Huang said. Jetson Xavier is packed with six processors which can run 30 trillion operations per second. It took five years to be created, Huang said: three years for the design and two years for the architecting.