Taipei, Taiwan — June 1, 2026: After years of leaks, rumors, and coordinated social media teases, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially announced the company's first-ever consumer PC chip at his Computex 2026 / GTC Taipei keynote on Monday. The NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip — built around the new N1X Arm-based processor co-developed with Microsoft and MediaTek — marks Nvidia's entry into a market it has never directly competed in before, taking on Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple in the laptop and desktop PC processor arena. "This reinvention of the computer is as big of a deal as the reinvention of the phone into what we now know as the smartphone," Huang said.

What Is the RTX Spark? Specs and Architecture

At full strength, the RTX Spark chip offers up to 20 Arm CPU cores, a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, 128GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and up to 300 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The powerful CPU and GPU are connected over NVLink C2C, and the large memory pool gives AI agents and 120-billion-parameter models plenty of power and space for long-running tasks — with context lengths stretching to one million tokens.

The RTX Spark brings together 30 years of Nvidia innovation — including CUDA, RTX, DLSS, FP4, TensorRT, OptiX, Reflex, and G-SYNC — into slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and small, ultraefficient desktop PCs. The N1X pairs a 20-core Arm Grace CPU with an RTX 5070-class Blackwell GPU, featuring the full CUDA software stack — marking Nvidia's first entry into Windows on Arm laptops.

For full technical documentation and Nvidia's official press release on the RTX Spark announcement, visit the official Nvidia Newsroom RTX Spark press release — the primary authoritative source for product specifications, partner details, and developer platform information.

Who's Making RTX Spark Laptops? The Full OEM Partner List

RTX Spark-powered slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and premium displays, as well as compact desktop PCs, will be available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI — with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.

RTX Spark laptops can render 90GB 3D scenes with OptiX and DLSS, edit 12K 4:2:2 video with the Nvidia Blackwell decoder, and run 120-billion-parameter large language models with 1-million-token context. As Windows on Arm devices, users are also looking at impressive gaming performance — with these new laptops delivering the latest AAA games at 1440p at over 100 FPS with ray tracing, DLSS 4.5, and Nvidia Reflex.

Microsoft Surface Ultra: The Flagship Device

Among the launch partners, Microsoft's Surface Ultra is the standout flagship — a direct collaboration between the two companies that represents the closest partnership in Windows hardware since the original Surface Pro. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the N1X processor made alongside Microsoft, to be incorporated into the new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from Microsoft, Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI. Microsoft is also expected to reveal more details about Windows AI agent capabilities for RTX Spark developers at Microsoft Build, running June 2–3.

The Competitive Landscape: Taking on Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD

Nvidia's entry into the PC processor market reshapes a competitive landscape that has been in flux since Apple's M-series chips demonstrated the performance and efficiency potential of Arm architecture on consumer devices.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X platform holds the current Windows Arm franchise, winning design slots at Lenovo, Dell, HP, Samsung, and Microsoft Surface. Its persistent weakness is GPU performance — a gap the N1X is explicitly designed to exploit. Pre-release Geekbench prototype results show the N1X scoring approximately 3,096 in single-core and 18,837 in multi-core tests, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite scoring approximately 2,693 single-core — roughly 15% behind.

Jensen Huang: "For 40 Years, You Launched Apps. Now You Have Agents"

Nvidia's CEO framed the RTX Spark's significance in the broadest possible terms: "The PC is being reinvented. For forty years, you launched apps. Now you have agents." The shift from application-centric computing to agentic AI computing — where AI systems autonomously take actions, manage tasks, and operate persistently in the background — is the architectural hypothesis underpinning the RTX Spark's entire design. The 128GB unified memory pool and the ability to run 120-billion-parameter models locally are not consumer features; they are the infrastructure requirements of the next generation of AI-powered personal computing.

RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops will be available from leading manufacturers this fall. Benchmark data and detailed pricing are expected closer to the formal retail launch date — but the competitive and technological implications of Nvidia's PC entry are already being felt across the entire semiconductor industry.