​Personal AI Supercomputer Era Nears as RTX Spark-Powered Laptops Roll Out

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On Oct. 7, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra equipped with NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, with prices starting at $2,599, targeting creators, developers and AI engineers; the N1X chip combines an 18- or 20-core Grace CPU with either 5,120 or 6,144 Blackwell GPU cores, unified memory uses LPDDR5X ranging from 24GB to 128GB, maximum AI compute performance reaches 1 petaflop, and the system can run AI models with more than 120 billion parameters locally. The RTX Spark platform was jointly developed by NVIDIA and MediaTek and integrates a 20-core Arm-based Grace CPU, an RTX GPU based on the Blackwell architecture and up to 128GB of unified memory. Dell also unveiled the Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition based on the RTX Spark superchip, supporting up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 4TB of SSD storage. Dell and Microsoft's new products will launch globally from Oct. 16; ASUS has confirmed its ProArt P16 and P14 will be available from Oct. 16, and the HP OmniBook Ultra 16 and OmniBook X14, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n and 9n 2-in-1, and MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ are also scheduled from Oct. 16. In addition, ASUS, Acer and MSI are set to launch desktop PCs equipped with NVIDIA DGX Spark and 64GB of unified memory from Oct. 23, with prices starting at $4,999. The source does not state the cause (the event is a product rollout with no causal background given).

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Source: The Elec · 10/11/2026 · View original source