After storming onto the stage in Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has finally showcased the company’s long-awaited laptop-grade CPUs. They’re just as promising, and just as perplexing, as we imagined based on nearly a year’s worth of rumors and leaks.
Huang claimed Nvidia was effectively reinventing PCs with the newfangled RTX Spark platform. He went as far as to state that RTX Spark will handle “every application that Windows has ever run.” Huang walked onto the stage holding a PC in both hands, one running 007 First Light and the other Forza Horizon 6. He claimed both titles were running “well.” Just how well, we’ll have to find out for ourselves. © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo First in this stack is the N1X. The N1X is exciting because of what it represents for the company’s GPU architecture. The chip features a Blackwell-series GPU, the same architecture used in the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series discrete graphics cards you’ll find in many professional or gaming laptops. It uses a 20-core GPU developed in part by MediaTek. The chip supports up to 128GB of unified memory, but beyond these figures, Huang didn’t detail what people can expect. But, of course, the point of these chips is to run AI, or at least to run some AI on-device and then rely on the cloud for everything else. Nvidia promised we’ll see laptops from practically all the major PC makers, including the likes of Microsoft, Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, and MSI.
