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Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark AI PC Chip at Computex With Support From Major PC Makers

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened Computex in Taipei by unveiling the RTX Spark, a one-petaflop “superchip” designed to run AI agents locally and securely on Windows PCs. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI will ship RTX Spark-powered machines this autumn, with Acer and Gigabyte to follow.

The chip includes secure sandboxes co-developed with Microsoft to run AI agents such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, alongside sufficient CPU, GPU, and RAM to operate large language models entirely on-device. Over 100 software partners have committed support, including Adobe, Riot Games, and Xbox.

Huang framed the launch as a fundamental shift in human-computer interaction, describing a future where billions of AI agents use PCs as tools — driving demand for far more CPUs than the current GPU-dominated AI infrastructure requires. Microsoft is positioning its own RTX Spark device as the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built.

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