Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark for Windows PCs

Overview

• Nvidia announced the RTX Spark at Computex, with CEO Jensen Huang presenting the chip on June 1 as a core part of a multi-year push into consumer PCs.
• The Spark is a single, unified chip that combines central and graphics processing, offers up to about 1 petaflop of AI compute and supports up to 128 GB of unified memory to run large models locally.
• Nvidia developed the chip with MediaTek and says it worked closely with Microsoft so the Spark can run autonomous AI agents on-device rather than relying on cloud servers.
• Major PC makers including Lenovo, HP, Dell, Microsoft Surface, Asus and MSI have committed to Spark-equipped Windows laptops and desktops for the second half of 2026, with Acer and Gigabyte expected to follow.
• Analysts say the move lets Nvidia challenge Apple, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm but adoption is uncertain because of memory shortages, rising component costs and privacy and security trade-offs from more local data processing.