NVIDIA opened Taipei’s Computex trade show on Sunday with the unveiling of a new PC CPU it has dubbed the RTX Spark — a “superchip” the company says will power AI PCs from a who’s who list of consumer hardware makers this autumn.
The 1-petaflop chip is designed to run AI agents such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent securely on personal computers. RTX Spark Windows PCs will be available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and Gigabyte to follow.
In addition to secure sandboxes — jointly developed with Microsoft — for running AI agents safely, the PCs will carry enough CPU, GPU, RAM and NVIDIA CUDA software to run local versions of large language models. NVIDIA said its RTX technology will deliver faster AI performance, better image quality and support for AI features in more than 1,000 games and applications.
The chipmaker is positioning the new platform as both a creator tool and a significant gaming upgrade. More than 100 Windows software makers have signed on to support the chip, including Adobe, Blender, ComfyUI, Riot Games and Xbox.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang framed the launch around a bigger shift in computing — moving away from launching apps, pointing, clicking and typing. “With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work,” he said in a press release. “Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop.”
The launch follows Huang’s claim last month that NVIDIA has identified a new $200 billion market in selling CPUs for AI — not only GPUs. He made specific mention of the high-end server CPU released earlier this year, called Vera, of which NVIDIA says it has already sold $20 billion worth. On the company’s May earnings call, Huang signalled the broader ambition. “We’ll have billions of agents, and those billions of agents will all use tools. And those tools are going to be like PCs, just like us humans using PCs today. We’re going to need a lot more CPUs,” he said.
NVIDIA ARM-based Windows devices have been tried before — and failed. In 2013, Microsoft wrote off $900 million on its NVIDIA ARM-based Surface RT, with partners including Dell bailing on the product. But the new chip is a different proposition. Microsoft is positioning its own RTX Spark PC as so powerful that it has named it the Surface Laptop Ultra, calling it “the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built.”
PC manufacturers have not yet released full specifications or pricing for individual models. The systems appear to be full Windows versions of the DGX Spark mini-computer that NVIDIA already sells to developers for around $4,800. Whether the new PCs will compete on price with the affordable Mac Mini — which has become a popular choice for running OpenClaw — or sit at the high end of the market alongside NVIDIA’s own agent-running mini computer remains to be seen.
If NVIDIA succeeds in bringing AI agents safely and usefully to the consumer mainstream, the impact on the personal computing market could be substantial.
