Nvidia and Microsoft launch RTX Spark AI PCs (opens in new tab)

Nvidia introduced RTX Spark, an Arm-based Windows PC platform for laptops and compact desktops, at Computex 2026 in Taipei, while Microsoft used Build 2026 to show new Surface hardware and Windows tools built around local AI agents. The platform combines Nvidia Blackwell RTX graphics with a Grace CPU and unified memory, with Nvidia and Microsoft saying systems can deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and support local AI workloads that would otherwise rely on cloud compute. Microsoft an...