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After years of speculation, Nvidia announced a new CPU for consumer laptops, competing with industry giants Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. Its new RTX Spark chip will be found on laptops and desktops from all the big PC brands: HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Microsoft, MSI, and Dell, with some available as early as this fall.
Nvidia, in partnership with Microsoft, says its new Arm-based RTX Spark is a reinvention of the PC to reflect the age of AI agents, offering up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, full-stack graphics technology, and up to 128GB of unified memory to power creative tasks.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei, promising a native Windows experience centered around personal agents, with agentic AI features soon to be accessible directly from the Windows taskbar itself. "We've worked with Microsoft for two and a half years: reinventing the PC and reinventing Windows," Huang said during a press Q&A in Taipei. "We're reinventing the PC."
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Nvidia has bold claims for its RTX Spark-powered laptops, which it is calling "the most efficient PC chip ever built," but specific details remain a little light, including performance metrics, hardware specs, and, of course, pricing.
With premium tandem OLED displays, 128GB of unified memory across the board, and premium builds, however, you can expect all of the new models to be in "high-end creator machine" territory, well over the $2,000 mark.
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