Overview
- Nvidia announced the RTX Spark family Monday at Computex in Taipei as an Arm‑based system‑on‑chip that combines a Blackwell GPU with a 20‑core Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory.
- Company claims include up to one petaflop of AI compute, the ability to run 120‑billion‑parameter models and tasks like 12K video editing and 90GB 3D scene rendering, but Nvidia has not released independent benchmark data.
- Nvidia said it built OpenShell and is working with Microsoft on new Windows security and containment primitives to let personal AI agents run locally and keep data on the device.
- Major OEMs including Microsoft Surface, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and MSI have devices on roadmaps for this fall with initial systems aimed at the premium segment and no public pricing yet.
- Open questions remain about legacy x86 app compatibility on Arm, real‑world battery and performance tradeoffs, memory supply and cost, and how recent U.S. export rules could limit sales to China as Nvidia scales manufacturing with TSMC and MediaTek.