15 October 2026
Nvidia and Microsoft launch RTX Spark, a laptop chip for local AI
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NVIDIA ran this on , 2 days before the next source picked it up.
- Nvidia's RTX Spark, a single chip combining Arm CPU cores, an Nvidia graphics processor and up to 128GB of memory, goes into Windows laptops from October 16.
- Nvidia says RTX Spark is twice as efficient as an Intel Core Ultra 9 with an RTX 5070 graphics card, which matters for running AI tasks on battery.