NVIDIA's Project DIGITS Makes Grace Blackwell GPUs Available to AI Devs

NVIDIA has a history of making some small, power-efficient development hardware for AI developers, data scientists, and students. But get ready for something much bigger than past efforts. At CES 2025 during tonight's keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a huge expansion to the company's previous DIGITS DevBox efforts. Dubbed Project DIGITS, the company released an Arm64-based PC with NVIDIA's own GPU technology to take the next leap in AI development kit technology.

Long-time HotHardware readers are no doubt familiar with the Jetson AGX Orin Development Kit, which brought some serious Ampere horsepower in a small, power-efficient package. Project DIGITS is kind of like that, except that it's giving developers access to a petaflop of compute power, with the caveat that we're talking about four-bit integers here (INT4), not larger floating point numbers. NVIDIA calls it a supercomputer, and while it's a lot smaller ...