Nvidia’s new chip to power fresh line of Windows laptops by Dell, HP
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced the RTX Spark laptop during his keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 1, 2026.
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Nvidia has emerged as the world’s most valuable company, dominating the market for artificial intelligence chips in the data center. Now the company is expanding its prowess into chips that will serve as the main processors of personal computers, entering an arena long dominated by the government. Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm And Apple.
In his keynote at the Computex conference in Taiwan on Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new N1X processor. Microsoft. It will be included in a new RTX Spark superchip and will launch in a new lineup of Microsoft, Dell, and Windows PCs in the fall. HP, ASUS, Lenovo and MSI.
“This reinvention of the computer is as big a deal as the reinvention of the phone into what we now know as the smartphone,” Huang said, pointing to the fact that agency AI will run on all new computers.
“Microsoft and Nvidia are going to reinvent the computer,” he added. “This is the first completely redesigned, reinvented series of computers in 40 years.”
Nvidia’s initial plan includes more than 30 laptops and 10 desktops with the new chip, an Nvidia spokesperson said.
The first PC processor consists of two flagship-type Nvidia chips fused together, plus 128 gigabytes of combined memory. It pairs one of Nvidia’s Blackwell graphics processing units with the new Arm-based custom N1X central processing unit designed specifically by Taiwanese firm MediaTek.
RTX Spark represents a potentially major shakeup for the PC industry, which is already experiencing significant changes driven by the AI boom. As arm-based processors like Nvidia’s gain the upper hand against traditional x86 processors powered by Intel and AMD, the overall CPU market is exploding into what Huang says is a $200 billion industry.
This reinvention of the computer is as big a deal as the reinvention of the telephone into what we now know as the smartphone.
Nvidia told CNBC in February that CPUs were “becoming the bottleneck” due to increased AI workflows. The next month, Nvidia introduced an entire rack full of Vera CPUs for data centers. While training large models requires large amounts of parallel math (perfect work for a GPU), accessing that data and sending it to multiple agents requires the more general computation offered by a CPU.
It will be made using Nvidia’s new PC processor Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company3 nanometer technology is currently only available in Taiwan.
Expectations about Nvidia’s Arm-based PC chip have been building for years. Reuters reported The company is working on a PC chip in 2023, as part of a push project Microsoft enabling companies to make Arm-based processors for their computers. An Nvidia spokesperson said they have been working with Microsoft on the chip for “many years” and added that it will be “much more capable, higher performing, more efficient” than traditional x86 processors.
Intel is the original pioneer of the x86 instruction set and introduced it in the 1970s. Intel introduced its new Xeon 6+ data center CPUs at Computex in Taiwan on Monday.
Recently, a number of companies have been switching to Arm’s alternative energy-efficient architecture, which first became popular in the original iPhone in 2007.
Apple now produces Arm-based processors for its own computers and is launching a pricier MacBook lineup with its latest M5 chips in March. Arm also introduced its first in-house CPU that same month, and AMD is also reportedly working on an Arm-based PC chip.
The first laptops powered by Nvidia’s new chip will be as thin as 14 millimeters, carry a premium price tag, and will also debut in some smaller desktop models. While RTX Spark will eventually expand to different price points, Nvidia said it’s currently targeting creators, AI developers, and gamers “looking for ultra-thin and light laptops, thin laptops, portable laptops, or compact desktops.”
Nvidia said it would release more performance metrics closer to the chip’s fall launch. For now, the RTX Spark is “roughly equivalent” to Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5070 laptop GPU, according to the spokesperson.
Huang also announced at Computex on Monday that Nvidia’s Vera CPU for data centers is now in full production. Nvidia is producing millions of CPUs for “a market that never existed before,” Huang said. Vera will be available from autumn. Early customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX’s xAI, Dell, Oracle and CoreWeave.
“This will be our new major growth driver,” Huang said. “Both of these CPUs will be high-performance, but they also need to be extremely energy efficient so we can fit as many CPUs as possible into the factory without powering down token generation.”
“Fast CPUs have become essential to keeping the AI factory running,” said Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing.
Buck said Vera can generate tokens 1.8 times faster than x86 today, which “improves overall agent token performance, enabling smarter, longer-thinking agents and ultimately generating more data center token revenue.”
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