Nvidia has introduced a new class of personal computer designed to run autonomous artificial intelligence agents locally—along with a suite of new chips to power those machines.
The company on Monday unveiled the RTX Spark chip family, positioning itself to compete more directly with established PC chip providers such as Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm. Nvidia founder CEO Jensen Huang announced the chip onstage in Taipei at the Computex trade show, describing it as part of a broader shift in how people will use computers over the next decade.
“Today, when you think about your phone, the one thing you don’t do with it is make phone calls,” Huang said. “I’m certain what’s going to happen here is that the PC 10 years from now … is going to be completely different.”
Nvidia says RTX Spark is designed to meet rising demand for AI agents, or bots that can take actions on a user’s behalf rather than just generating responses to the user’s input. That workload depends more on the performance of central-processing units (CPUs) than graphic processing units (GPUs), which Nvidia is best known for.
The new chip, which Nvidia describes as a “superchip” that combines CPU, GPU, and AI acceleration in a single package, was developed with Taiwan’s MediaTek and in close collaboration with Microsoft. Nvidia and Microsoft said they are aiming to deliver a “native Windows experience for personal agents,” allowing users to run advanced AI directly on Windows devices rather than relying on cloud computing.
“I could totally imagine that some day there’s actually an AI supercomputer in your house,” Huang said.
Nvidia described a flagship configuration featuring 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of unified memory, and said the platform is built to handle heavy creative workloads and graphically intensive video games in machines as thin as about 14 millimeters.
During his keynote, Huang showcased RTX Spark systems running the newly released James Bond game “007 First Light” and the racing game “Forza Horizon 6,” both on unplugged laptops. Although he did not provide details such as frame rates or resolution settings.
Huang said the launch was a rethink of the traditional PC model—one in which users “ask” and the computer executes tasks, rather than following the familiar routine of opening an app, clicking through menus, and typing commands.
“The PC is being reinvented,” he said. “With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work.”
The first RTX Spark PCs will arrive this fall in laptops and compact desktops from major manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Asus, and MSI, with additional vendors expected to follow.
Nvidia has yet to share pricing details, specific performance metrics about the RTX Spark, and how it compares to laptops running Apple, AMD, or Intel chips.
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