Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark Arm Chip, Teams with Microsoft
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- Nvidia announced its entry into the consumer PC chip market with the RTX Spark, a family of Arm‑based silicon chips for laptops and mini‑PCs.
- RTX Spark flagship specifications include 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores and up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, matching the GB10 chip used in Nvidia’s DGX Spark.
- Microsoft confirmed the RTX Spark will power its upcoming Surface Laptop Ultra, which the company calls “the most powerful thing we’ve ever made.”
- Adobe is optimizing Premiere and Photoshop to leverage the RTX Spark’s on‑chip AI and graphics capabilities.
- Game developers such as Riot Games, Krafton and Epic are bringing titles like League of Legends, PUBG and Fortnite to Windows on Arm, supported by Nvidia’s OpenShell runtime and security primitives announced at Microsoft Build.
- Nvidia says the RTX Spark can render a 90 GB 3D scene, edit 12 K video and run a 1440p game at 100 fps on a thin laptop without a charger, and can host 120‑billion‑parameter AI agents in up to 128 GB unified memory.
- MediaTek partnered with Nvidia to fabricate the RTX Spark on TSMC’s 3 nm process, though Nvidia did not disclose manufacturing location or pricing, noting only that early units will target premium price points.
Why it matters: Laptop makers and power‑hungry users gain a chip that merges CPU, GPU and AI on a single Arm die, enabling high‑end graphics and large AI models without cloud tokens, while Microsoft gains a hardware platform for AI‑first Windows experiences across the PC market.
