PCS

American

abbreviation

Personal Communications Service: a system of digital wireless communications, used especially for mobile phones and often including additional features, as caller ID or paging.

PCS British

abbreviation

Public and Commercial Services Union

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Etymology

Origin of PCS

1995–2000

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The world’s most valuable company by market capitalization, Nvidia isn’t expecting big profit soon from getting its chips into everyday PCs, but analysts said it wanted to keep a connection with consumers in an era when every device will be AI-enabled.

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Nvidia and its partners hope to make PCs lighter and thinner while keeping long battery life.

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The system-on-a-chip is standard in smartphones such as the iPhone but not yet widespread in PCs.

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The Nvidia chip aims to provide PCs with the kind of efficiency and battery life typically associated with mobile devices, without sacrificing performance.

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Microsoft and Nvidia haven’t said when PCs with Nvidia chips would be available or which brands would sell them.

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