The Morning After: NVIDIA thinks its new chip will revolutionize PCs
Key takeaways
- Plus, NASA ends a Mars mission and Meta’s still being creepy.
- NVIDIA It's been a busy week, with Computex and Microsoft Build just two of the raft of big events going on right now.
- RTX Spark is the portable sibling of NVIDIA's existing DGX Spark AI mini-desktop, but tailored for Windows notebooks and desktops.
Plus, NASA ends a Mars mission and Meta’s still being creepy.
NVIDIA It's been a busy week, with Computex and Microsoft Build just two of the raft of big events going on right now. The biggest news story from both was probably NVIDIA's glossy announcement of its RTX Spark system on a chip... sorry, I mean "superchip." It's an integrated CPU/GPU/RAM unit, like AMD's Ryzen AI Max, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite and Apple Silicon. NVIDIA says it will offer unprecedented levels of AI computing power in a low-power mobile device.
RTX Spark is the portable sibling of NVIDIA's existing DGX Spark AI mini-desktop, but tailored for Windows notebooks and desktops. It combines a MediaTek-made ARM CPU with 20 cores with an NVIDIA integrated GPU with power similar to that of the RTX 5070. Users can order the system with between 16GB and 128GB of unified memory, and there's plenty of bandwidth to join the whole chorus together.