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I saw the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops – these 4 models will lead the new ultrabook boom

I saw the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops – these 4 models will lead the new ultrabook boom

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Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. After years of speculation, Nvidia announced a new CPU for consumer laptops, competing with industry giants Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. Its new RTX Spark chip will be found on laptops and desktops from all the big PC brands: HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Microsoft, MSI, and Dell, with some available as early as this fall. Nvidia, in partnership with Microsoft, says its new Arm-based RTX Spark is a reinvention of the PC to reflect the age of AI agents, offering up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, full-stack graphics technology, and up to 128GB of unified memory to power creative tasks. Also: Dell’s new XPS 13 is a MacBook Neo rival that costs $599 and retains premium features Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei, promising a native Windows experience centered around personal agents, with agentic AI features soon to be accessible directly from the Windows taskbar itself. “We’ve worked with Microsoft for two and a half …

Analysis:How a nudge from Nvidia propelled frugal Micron into the AI boom and a trillion market cap

Analysis:How a nudge from Nvidia propelled frugal Micron into the AI boom and a $1 trillion market cap

Published by Sam Flores

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 : Micron Technology’s march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion. That surge, though, was not built on its famed frugality, but on a nearly too-late push from Nvidia that pulled the U.S. memory chipmaker into the center of the AI boom. For decades, the Idaho-based company survived by building factories on a shoestring budget, adopting used equipment and avoiding cutting-edge bets. That discipline helped it endure brutal boom-bust cycles in memory chips and outlast rivals, leaving it one of three global suppliers alongside South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. But that approach of treating memory chips as a commodity clashed with Nvidia’s vision for AI. Three years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met Micron boss Sanjay Mehrotra and outlined how he expected the memory market to evolve, Huang said in a media interview last month. Huang had long bet early that memory, and not just processors, would become a critical bottleneck for AI, forcing suppliers like …

Nvidia chases 0B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

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Nvidia opened Taipei’s enormous Computex trade show on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chipmaker unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it dubbed a “superchip,” and named a who’s who list of PC makers that will soon deliver AI PCs powered by it. The super-fast, 1-petaflop chip is designed to run AI agents like OpenClaw or Hermes Agent securely, according to Nvidia. Such 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 being equipped with secure sandboxes (jointly developed with Microsoft) to run agents securely, the PCs will also have enough CPU, GPU, RAM, and underlying Nvidia CUDA software to run local versions of large language models. Nvidia said that its RTX technology will deliver faster performance for AI, better image quality, and support for AI features in more than 1,000 games and applications. The chipmaker is marketing this as an alternative for creators making AI content, as well as providing …

Nvidia unveils new chip to bring AI directly to personal computers | Technology News

Nvidia unveils new chip to bring AI directly to personal computers | Technology News

Published by Sam Flores

Nvidia is set to bring artificial intelligence to laptop and desktop computers with brands like Microsoft and Dell later this year as the US tech giant broadens its AI presence. The Santa Clara, California-based AI chipmaker unveiled on Monday at its annual Nvidia GTC event in Taipei new powerful chips that would bring advanced AI functions to laptops and desktop computers. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list CEO Jensen Huang said that the new development is “going to reinvent the PC [personal computer]”. The changes come amid three years of collaboration between Microsoft and Nvidia and pit the latter against companies like chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and personal computer brands Intel and Apple. “This is going to be the new PC,” Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip — which combines CPU, or central processing unit, and GPU, or graphics processing unit, capabilities — that would power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models in what the company called “AI personal computers”, expected to debut in the fall of this year. …

Nvidia RTX Spark May Light a Fire for Windows on Arm

Nvidia RTX Spark May Light a Fire for Windows on Arm

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Buckle up: Nvidia is “reinventing the personal computer,” according to CEO Jensen Huang. Microsoft and Nvidia have been cozying up to one another in preparation for Nvidia’s highly anticipated launch of the RTX Spark. It’s a new Arm-based system-on-chip (or “SoC”) platform that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture to thin and light Windows laptops and mini desktops. The goal is to provide high-power processing performance for running personal agents, creative work and gaming, but without the space, power needs and cooling requirements usually imposed by discrete graphics. The RTX Spark joins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X processors running Windows on Arm, with similar claims of “all-day battery life.” Snapdragons achieve that, but one thing to remember about Nvidia’s chip is that it’s intended for far heavier workloads than Snapdragon processors.  Those aren’t meant to “render ultralarge 90GB-plus 3D scenes, edit 12K 4:2:2 video, generate 4K AI videos, run 120B-parameter LLMs with up to 1 million tokens context using agents locally, and play AAA games at 1440p and over 100 frames per second,” all of which can tank your …

LG shares rally on hopes for AI, robot cooperation with Nvidia, media says

LG shares rally on hopes for AI, robot cooperation with Nvidia, media says

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SEOUL, June 1 : Shares in South Korea’s LG Electronics and some affiliates rose sharply in Monday morning trade, on investor hopes for expanded cooperation in physical AI and robotics with Nvidia, according to media reports. Shares in LG Electronics rose 28 per cent, while LG CNS and holding company LG Corp rose 25 per cent and 21 per cent, respectively, in morning trade. “The stock prices of LG Group companies have recently risen as new businesses such as AI and robotics have been put under the spotlight,” Kiwoo Securities’ analyst Ahn Young-joon said in a note on Monday. South Korean media reported last week that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to visit South Korea later this week and meet, among others, LG Group chairman Koo Kwang-mo. Source link

Nvidia doesn’t make TVs, but it made the best thing you can plug into one

Nvidia doesn’t make TVs, but it made the best thing you can plug into one

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Nvidia does more than make AI chips. While it’s true that their chips power the data centers that run most of the large language models (which you can now run locally) for OpenAI for ChatGPT, Anthropic for Claude and others, Nvidia also makes the Tegra X1+ processor which has an insane 256-core GPU and is used to power a device that I’ve been using in my living room for years for all of my TV watching needs. It’s a device that you can still buy today if you want the very best in streaming, TV apps (though be aware of data collection), and even gaming. There were two versions of the SHIELD TV. The “tube” base model, which I own and has been discontinued, has the same internals as the console-style Pro model, which is the one you can buy today. This streaming device has impressive capabilities, and it’s been the hub of my living room for several years now. Related I plugged a Raspberry Pi into my smart TV and it changed how I …

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ 0B market for Nvidia

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is, perhaps, one of the greatest corporate hype men of all time when it comes to his company. He may even surpass Salesforce’s Marc Benioff when it comes to relentless optimism in his company’s future and revenues. Even so, he delivers on the hype, quarter after quarter. Instead of cautioning you to view the proclamation that he’s found a “brand new $200 billion TAM for Nvidia” with skepticism, I’d argue he’s earned a bit of trust. Huang positioned this massive new market at the feet of Nvidia’s new CPU product, Vera, which was introduced in March. Speaking on Wednesday’s earnings call — after Nvidia posted another record-breaking quarter with $81.6 billion in revenue and forecast $91 billion for the next — Huang pitched Vera as a potentially transformative product. And one that already has promising sales figures. But no matter how well Nvidia delivers, Wall Street harbors anxiety over what will knock Nvidia from its perch. Lately, such fears have centered on the CPU. Nvidia is the king of …

Nvidia Unchanged Despite Big Earnings Beat And Solid Guidance

Nvidia Unchanged Despite Big Earnings Beat And Solid Guidance

Published by Jenni Sidey

As we discussed extensively in our preview, besides the Q1 revenue and guidance ($82BN+ and $90BN whisper respectively), Wall Street was expecting to get more color on the following topics during today’s call and Q&A: Potential for increased shareholder cash returns, Vera Rubin ramp timing (2H 26E), Gross margin durability (~75% amidst continued memory/other cost inflation), Update to the $1 Trillion 25-27 forecast, esp. contribution from LPU racks, CPU and Vera Rubin Ultra, not included before Potential upside from agentic AI to the server CPU business; Competitive landscape changes against Google TPU, agentic CPU, other ASICs.  With that in mind, here is what the world’s biggest company just reported for Q1: Revenue $81.62BN, beating Exp $79.19BN, but a bit light of the $82BN whisper  Adj EPS $1.87, beating Exp $1.76 Adj. Gross Margin 75%, beating Exp. 74.5% Solid all around.  The company’s all-important disclosed Data Center revenue was a record $75.2 billion in Q1, up 21% from the previous quarter and up 92% from a year ago. Nvidia also said that Vera Rubin is on …

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

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I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network. The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even train another AI model to pick up and place specific objects. And they say AGI is still a few years away! (I’m joking, it probably is). The results have me convinced that we may be on the brink of a robotics breakthrough. Training and controlling robots used to require considerable skill. Today’s AI models can make it almost easy. “AI-powered coding is super exciting because it has the potential to bridge the gap between conventional engineering methods, which are reliable but don’t generalize, and contemporary vision-language-action models, which generalize but are not yet reliable,” says Ken Goldberg, a roboticist at UC Berkeley who is exploring the approach. I told OpenClaw to try moving its new arm and it came up with this little wave. I bought a prebuilt arm called a LeRobot 101. It’s part …