At the NVIDIA GTC conference in Taipei, NVIDIA and Microsoft announced a groundbreaking partnership to deliver a secure, native platform for running autonomous AI agents locally on Windows PCs, powered by the newly unveiled NVIDIA RTX Spark™ superchip. The novel SoC integrates the NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores along with the proprietary 20-core NVIDIA Grace™ Arm-based CPU designed in partnership with MediaTek. Designed to transform the role of PCs into that of an autonomous team member, the chip is able to provide a colossal 1 petaflop of AI computing performance and has support for up to 128 GB of unified memory, allowing small form-factor devices to process 120-billion-parameter LLMs with a million-token context window on-device. Addressing the crucial industry challenge of data privacy and trust, the companies co-developed a joint security layer consisting of operating-system-level Windows security primitives for identity verification and process containment, seamlessly integrated with the new NVIDIA OpenShell runtime to give users precise governance over file access and local-versus-cloud request routing.
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Highlighting this monumental computing shift, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, stated, “The PC is being reinvented. For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask and the PC does the work. RTX Spark brings everything NVIDIA has built CUDA, RTX, our AI platform into a single superchip. Local agents. Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop. This is the new PC. The personal AI computer.” This unified stack delivers premium performance-per-watt alongside traditional PC capabilities, allowing users to render 90GB+ 3D scenes, play AAA games at 1440p over 100 fps, and benefit from a 2x AI performance boost in Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro, which are being rebuilt from the ground up for the platform. Backed by Microsoft’s OS-level scheduling optimizations and a thriving software ecosystem, RTX Spark systems are slated to debut this fall from leading hardware manufacturers, including ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Microsoft Surface.
