From PC World: Nvidia has a vision to put AI productivity into the hands of virtually everyone on the planet. On Sunday night it advanced that mission with the debut of the Nvidia RTX Spark, a challenge to Qualcomm as the second Windows on Arm processor for consumer and business PCs.
In conjunction with Mediatek, which designed the N1 and N1X CPU at the heart of the RTX Spark platform, Nvidia is “reinventing the personal computer, for creating, for gaming, for agents,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang (or an AI facsimile?) told attendees at Nvidia’s GTC conference at the opening of Computex 2026 in Taipei.
PC companies, ever quick to jump on a new trend, are on board with Nvidia’s vision. Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI showed RTX Spark laptops that will ship in the fall. Acer and Gigabyte will follow that wave. Microsoft, which has pioneered Windows on Arm development with Qualcomm, will release the Surface Laptop Ultra based upon the RTX Spark platform inside.
From one perspective, Nvidia’s RTX Spark processor is a powerful, yet familiar update to the PC. It’s loaded with a 20-core Arm “Grace” CPU, developed by Mediatek, connected to 128GB of unified memory via a 600 GB/s NVLink connection. The kicker is the integrated GPU, which contains a petaflop of AI performance, which Microsoft revealed contains 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores, about the equivalent of an RTX 5070 CPU. We’ve known about the N1X for some time — and now it’s reached fruition.
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