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Nvidia $NVDA -1.45% unveiled the RTX Spark, its first chip designed to serve as the main processor in Windows PCs, debuting in laptops and compact desktops from ASUS, Dell $DELL +32.76%, HP $HPQ +8.12%, Lenovo, Microsoft $MSFT +5.45% Surface, and MSI this fall, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.
At its core, the RTX Spark fuses one of Nvidia's Blackwell graphics processors together with a custom N1X CPU built on Arm architecture — a chip MediaTek designed specifically for the platform — linked through Nvidia's NVLink interconnect, according to CNBC. It offers up to 128GB of unified memory and delivers 1 petaflop of AI compute, the company said. Production of the chip relies on TSMC $TSM -1.51%'s 3-nanometer fabrication technology, according to CNBC.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the chip at Nvidia's GTC Taipei conference on Monday. "For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work," Jensen Huang said in a statement.
The chip is targeted at creators, AI developers, and gamers, the company said. The company's roadmap calls for the RTX Spark platform to eventually underpin upward of 30 laptop models and a dozen or more compact desktops, according to CNBC. Entry-point devices in the RTX Spark lineup will measure just 14 millimeters at their slimmest and land at the higher end of the market, with Nvidia noting that stripped-down versions carrying less memory are planned for buyers with tighter budgets.
