Menene guntuwar Nvidia N1X? Tambayoyi 11 da amsoshi game da Windows AI PC, haɗin gwiwa da Microsoft, CUDA, da farashi a Ostiraliya
Gabatarwa: menene guntuwa guda ke canjawa a kan kwamfutar Windows?
Wannan labarin ya tattara tambayoyi goma sha ɗaya tare da gajerun amsoshi masu bayyananne game da guntuwar Nvidia N1X: menene ita, yaushe aka fitar da ita, ina matsayinta a cikin haɗin gwiwar da aka kafa tsakanin Nvidia da Microsoft na shekaru da yawa, darussan NV1, DirectX, da 3dfx, yadda CUDA, Tensor Cores, da NVLink ke tsara AI na zamani, da kuma farashin na farko na kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka na N1X a Ostiraliya.
1. Menene Nvidia N1X?
Nvidia N1X guntuwa ce mai sauri (System-on-a-Chip - SoC) wacce aka tsara don kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka na Windows 11 (RTX Spark), kwamfutocin masu ƙirƙira, da ƙananan kwamfutocin tebur. Tana haɗawa a cikin ɗaya silicon CPU ta ARM Grace mai cores 20 da aka haɓaka tare da MediaTek da GPU na Blackwell RTX mai cores 6,144. Da 128GB na ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya (Unified Memory), tana iya gudanar da manyan samfuran AI (local LLMs) kai tsaye a kan kwamfuta ba tare da haɗin intanet ba.
2. A yaushe aka fitar da guntuwar N1X?
An sanar da guntuwar N1X a ranar 31 ga Mayu, 2026, kuma ta fara sayarwa a hukumance a cikin kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka a ranar 16 ga Oktoba, 2026. An fitar da ƙananan kwamfutocin tebur a watan Nuwamba 2026.
3. Tana aiki ne kawai akan kwamfutocin Windows ko kuma akan Mac?
An tsara ta musamman don Windows 11 PCs kawai; ba ta aiki akan kwamfutocin Mac. Apple tana amfani ne kawai da guntuwarta ta jerin M tare da macOS. Don amfani da Linux akan injunan N1X, Nvidia ta ba da shawarar hanyar Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
4. Menene tarihin haɗin gwiwar Nvidia da Microsoft Windows (ta shekara, wata da kwanan wata)?
30 Satumba 1995: Microsoft ta fitar da software DirectX 1.0 don Windows 95; Nvidia ta tsara guntuwarta RIVA 128 da GeForce daidai da shi. 10 Maris 2000: Microsoft da Nvidia sun sanya hannu kan kwangilar samar da guntuwar zane don na farko na'urar wasan Xbox. 30 Nuwamba 2006: kamfanonin biyu sun yi aiki tare don Windows Vista da fasahar DirectX 10. 26 Oktoba 2012 da 22 Oktoba 2013: kwamfutocin hannu na Microsoft Surface RT da Surface 2 an fitar da su da guntuwar Tegra 3 da Tegra 4 na Nvidia bi da bi. 26 Oktoba 2015: na farko kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka Surface Book mai GPU Nvidia GeForce ta fita. 19 Maris 2018: kamfanonin biyu sun gabatar da bin sawun haske na lokaci-lokaci (DirectX Raytracing - DXR) a cikin Windows 10 tare. 21 Fabrairu 2023: an sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar shekaru goma don samar da wasannin Xbox PC akan dandalin girgije na GeForce NOW na Nvidia. 31 Mayu 2026 da 16 Oktoba 2026: an sanar da dandalin RTX Spark N1X don kwamfutocin Windows 11 masu AI kuma an fara sayarwa.
5. Yaushe Microsoft ta ƙi ko ta guje wa Nvidia?
Xbox 360 da Xbox One (2003-2013): bayan na farko Xbox, saboda sabani kan tsara farashin guntuwa Microsoft ta guje wa Nvidia ta koma ATI/AMD. Surface da yarjejeniyar Qualcomm (2014-2023): bayan gazawar Windows RT, Microsoft ta bar guntuwar Tegra kuma ta sami yarjejeniya ta musamman da Qualcomm don kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka na Windows on Arm daga 2016 zuwa 2023. Cibiyar bayanai da guntuwar Maia AI (2023-2026): don rage dogaro da GPU na Nvidia kawai, Microsoft ta ƙirƙiri guntuwarta Azure Maia AI. An soke kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka na wasan Surface (Yuni 2026): don guje wa fafatawa da sauran abokan haɗin gwiwar Windows, Microsoft ta bar shirin ƙera kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka ta wasan Surface dabam.
6. Me ya faru a shekarun 1990 game da gazawar NV1, matsalar DirectX ta Microsoft, da ragowar kuɗin kwanaki 30?
NV1 da fasahar QTM (Mayu 1995): na farko guntuwar Nvidia, NV1, ta yi amfani da sifofi masu lanƙwasa (Quadratic Texture Mapping) maimakon mukaɗai masu fili. Ko da yake a fasaha ta fi, matuƙar wahala ga masu haɓaka wasanni. Matsalar DirectX ta Microsoft (Satumba 1995): DirectX 1.0 (Direct3D) da Microsoft ta fitar ta bayyana zanen da ya dogara da mukaɗai a matsayin ka'ida ta gama gari (standard). Da wannan, sababbin wasannin Windows sun daina aiki akan guntuwar NV1, kuma fasahar Nvidia ta zama tsohuwa cikin dare ɗaya. An soke NV2 da taimakon Sega (1996): Jensen Huang ya soke guntuwar NV2 da ake yi wa Sega a tsakiya. Da kuɗin kwanaki 30 kawai ya rage, ya tafi Japan, ya gaya wa Shugaban Sega gaskiya, kuma ya karɓi sauran dala miliyan 5 na kwangilar a matsayin gudummawa, yana ceto kamfanin. Komowa da RIVA 128 (1997): da wannan kuɗi, Nvidia ta yi guntuwar RIVA 128 mai dogaro da mukaɗai wacce ta dace da DirectX, ta sayar da dubban ɗaya miliyan a cikin watanni 4, kuma ta tashi sake.
7. Yadda Nvidia ta rusar da 3dfx, da kuma halayen jagorancin Jensen Huang?
Faduwar 3dfx: yayin da 3dfx ke dogaro da katunan 2D/3D dabam da software Glide nata, Nvidia ta fitar da RIVA 128 (komai cikin ɗaya) da na farko GPU a duniya, GeForce 256 (1999). Bugu da ƙari, da saurin fitar da sabuwar guntuwa kowane watanni 6, ta sa 3dfx ta yi faskare. Halayen jagoranci: tunanin faɗakarwa cewa "kwanaki 30 kawai sun rage ga faskare", gaskiya ta amince da kurakurai a fili (gaskiya ta hankali), gwaji akan kwaikwayon software kafin ƙera hardware, da tsarin ƙungiya mai shimfiɗa (Flat Organization) ba tare da matakai da yawa na mukamai sune manyan halayen jagorancin Huang.
8. Yadda software CUDA ta canza GPU na wasanni zuwa tushen juyin juya halin AI?
CUDA, wacce Nvidia ta gabatar a 2006, ta ba da damar amfani da dubban cores na GPU don lissafin kimiyya da lissafi ta hanyar harsunan C/C++ ba tare da sanin harsunan zane ba. A 2012, samfurin AI mai suna AlexNet ya yi amfani da CUDA akan katunan wasanni biyu na Nvidia don samun nasara ta tarihi a gasar ImageNet. Wannan shi ne asalin juyin juya halin AI na zamani na yau.
9. Yadda Tensor Cores da NVLink ke aiki a cikin samfuran AI na zamani (LLMs)?
Tensor Cores: maimakon lissafa lambobi biyu kawai kamar cores na al'ada, suna ninka cikakken teburin lambobi (matriki) a lokaci guda kuma sun kammala lissafin AI da saurin walƙiya da ƙarancin ƙwararren bit (FP8/FP4). NVLink: gadar bayanai mai sauri da ta haɗa GPUs da yawa kai tsaye, bayan iyakar saurin motherboard (PCIe). Tana sa ɗaruruwan GPUs su yi aiki kamar babbar guntuwa ɗaya.
10. Yadda ake amfani da Tensor Cores da NVLink a cikin guntuwar N1X a kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka?
Tensor Cores na ƙarni na 5 a cikin guntuwar N1X suna ba da saurin AI na petaflop 1 kuma suna taimakawa gudanar da manyan samfuran AI (local LLMs) ba tare da intanet ba. Haka kuma, fasahar NVLink-C2C tana haɗa CPU da GPU a cikin guntuwa ɗaya kuma tana sa ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya 128GB ta zama gama gari ga dukansu biyu, don haka jinkirin kwafin bayanai ya ɓace kuma rayuwar baturi ta ƙaru.
11. Waɗanne manyan kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka ne ke da guntuwar N1X, kuma menene farashinsu (a dalar Ostiraliya)?
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra: allo 15 inch, cores 18 zuwa 20, farashi daga AU$4,399 zuwa AU$9,649. Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n / Yoga 9n 2-in-1: allo OLED 2.8K na 16 inch, farashi daga AU$5,799 zuwa AU$7,999. MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+: allo OLED touch na 16 inch, farashi daga AU$5,999 zuwa AU$10,999 (RAM 128GB). ASUS ProArt P16 (N1X): allo OLED 3K na 16 inch, RAM 48GB, farashi AU$6,999. Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition: allo OLED 3.2K na 16 inch, N1X cores 20, farashi daga AU$8,706.41.
Kammalawa
N1X ta kawo a cikin guntuwa ɗaya tarihi na shekaru talatin na Nvidia da Windows: darussan NV1 da DirectX, juriyar haɗin gwiwa na dogon lokaci da Microsoft, da fasahohin CUDA, Tensor Core, da NVLink waɗanda ke sarrafa AI na zamani. Ga masu saye, na farko kwamfutocin tafi-da-gidanka na N1X suna mai da AI na gida abin amfani na kwamfutar Windows ta al'ada, da farashi a Ostiraliya daga kusan AU$4,399.