At Computex 2026 on Monday in Taipei, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark platform, a new Arm-based superchip designed to reinvent the Windows PC for the era of agentic AI.
Developed in partnership with MediaTek and Microsoft, the platform centers on the N1X processor, which integrates a 20-core Arm CPU and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of delivering RTX 5070-class performance and running 120-billion-parameter AI models locally. The chip is manufactured on TSMC’s 3nm process and supports up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory, enabling laptops as thin as 14mm and weighing as little as three pounds.
“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, pointing to the fact agentic AI will run across all the new computers.
“Microsoft and Nvidia are going to reinvent the PC,” he added. “This is the first completely reengineered, reinvented line of PCs that has happened in 40 years.”
Huang described the RTX Spark as a "reinvention of the computer" comparable to the rise of the smartphone, emphasizing that AI agents will become the primary interface for personal computing. He outlined a vision where PCs serve as personal AI sandboxes that run continuously, handling tasks like 12K video editing, 3D rendering, and AAA gaming at 1440p/100+ fps.
The Nvidia CEO also announced the Vera Rubin microprocessor is in full production for AI agents and introduced Nvidia DSX, a framework for building scalable AI factories, stating that "compute is revenue" and "compute is profit." He dismissed concerns that AI would reduce software engineering jobs, arguing it instead makes the profession more valuable and productive.
“This is going to be our new major growth driver,” Huang said. “These CPUs are going to be both performant, but they also have to be extremely energy efficient, so that we can cram as much CPU as we can into the factory without taking away power from the token generation.”
“Fast CPUs have become essential to keeping the AI factory moving,” said Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing.
Buck said that Vera can produce tokens 1.8 times faster than x86 today, “advancing overall agent token performance, enabling smarter, longer-thinking agents and in the end, generating more data center token revenue.”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the detail of the integration of RTX Spark with Windows 11 and Copilot+ capabilities. The first wave of RTX Spark devices, including the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, Dell XPS 16, ASUS ProArt P14/P16, HP OmniBook X/Ultra, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n, and MSI Prestige N16 will ship in Fall 2026. Adobe confirmed it is rebuilding Photoshop and Premiere to leverage RTX Spark’s unified memory for AI-native pipelines.
RTX Spark's high-end specifications suggest a premium market positioning, competing with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon and traditional x86 processors from Intel and AMD.
