Nvidia has spent the last few years becoming the undisputed king of data center AI hardware. Now it wants your laptop, too.
The company unveiled the RTX Spark superchip on June 1 at its GTC keynote during Computex in Taipei. It combines up to 20 Arm CPU cores with Nvidia’s high-performance Blackwell GPU architecture, delivering roughly 1 petaflop of AI compute power in a form factor slim enough for consumer laptops and compact desktops.
The chip supports up to 128GB of unified memory, a spec that puts it in direct competition with Apple’s highest-end silicon offerings. Devices powered by the RTX Spark are expected to ship in fall 2026 from hardware partners: ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, MSI, Acer, and GIGABYTE.
From cloud to couch: why on-device AI matters
The partnership with Microsoft is central to this vision. The two companies are collaborating to build what they’re calling AI personal computers, machines designed from the ground up to run intelligent agents locally rather than relying on cloud infrastructure.
