Never one to be short of hyperbole, at a press Q&A with the Nvidia CEO of course talk of the new RTX Spark SoC was on the menu. The Nvidia RTX Spark (AKA N1X) is a chip built in partnership with MediaTek, combining a custom Arm core (though quite how custom it is, I'm not sure) with an Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPU core. Connected via a super-quick NVLink connection and sharing a pool of LPDDR5x unified memory, the SoC is one of the most exciting things to come out of Computex this year, and Jen-Hsun says it is "100% awesome".
While it is absolutely being aimed at gamers in some form—though probably not in its peak, 128 GB guise—it is also being introduced as the hardware necessary to make your laptop less of a tool and more of an R2D2, a robot assistant. But even though it is being designed to make the AI the UI, it is still just using Windows.
