Nvidia unveiled a new superchip, the RTX Spark, that it said would bring powerful artificial intelligence directly onto personal computers, part of chief executive Jensen Huang's push to extend the company's dominance from data centres to the devices on people's desks. Mr Huang introduced the chip during his keynote at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
The RTX Spark is designed to run demanding AI workloads locally rather than relying on remote servers, a shift that promises lower latency and greater privacy for tasks that today often run in the cloud. Nvidia said the chip could handle ultra-large 3D scenes, edit high-resolution video, generate 4K AI video and run large language models of up to 120 billion parameters with long context windows, while also driving high-end gaming.
The launch came with a partnership with Microsoft aimed at reworking the Windows PC around AI agents, software that can take actions on a user's behalf rather than merely answer questions. Nvidia said RTX Spark-powered laptops and compact desktops would be available in the autumn from manufacturers including ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft's Surface line and MSI, with more to follow.
Bringing capable AI on-device is a strategically significant move for Nvidia, which has profited enormously from selling the chips that train and run AI in the cloud. By targeting personal computers, the company is seeking to own more layers of the AI stack, from the data centre down to the consumer endpoint, and to seed a market for 'AI PCs' that rivals are also chasing.
Separately, Nvidia said its Vera central processors for data centres had entered full production, with early customers including OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. The Vera chips are tailored for AI agents, reflecting the industry's pivot from systems that respond to prompts toward ones that carry out multi-step tasks autonomously.
The announcements reinforced Nvidia's effort to define the next phase of the AI build-out across both enterprise and consumer computing. Whether on-device AI proves compelling enough to drive a wave of PC upgrades will be a test of Mr Huang's bet that the technology belongs not only in the cloud but in every machine.