01/06/2026
This was announced hours ago at Computex 2026 in Taipei, and it is worth knowing about.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark at his keynote the company's first consumer chip with integrated CPU cores in over a decade, and a direct challenge to Apple's M-series, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X, and AMD's Strix Halo.
The RTX Spark is an Arm-based system-on-chip developed in collaboration with MediaTek. It combines 20 Arm Grace CPU cores with a Blackwell GPU featuring 6,144 CUDA cores the same GPU architecture that powers the RTX 5090 desktop card. NVIDIA says the integrated GPU performance is equivalent to a discrete RTX 5070. The chip supports up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory running at 300 GB/s bandwidth.
Confirmed launch partners include Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, and Microsoft. Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra announced alongside RTX Spark, the flagship device, featuring a 14mm chassis and a tandem OLED G-Sync display. Devices arrive in fall 2026.
NVIDIA's own words: "the most efficient PC chip ever built." Jensen Huang compared the announcement to the original iPhone transition to smartphone.
For desktop PC builders, the picture does not change in 2026. RTX Spark is a laptop chip. If you want Blackwell on a desktop, that still means a discrete RTX 50-series GPU in a proper desktop build.
At Ginger6, we have been building around RTX 50-series all year. If you want the performance of Blackwell in a machine that actually sits on your desk, this is still how you get it.
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Source: Tom's Hardware / Tom's Guide / TechRadar / CNBC — 1 June 2026