Nvidia has unveiled a new AI chip for laptops that the company claims will completely change how people use computers.
The RTX Spark ‘superchip’ is designed to embed personal artificial intelligence agents directly onto the device, without relying on cloud computing.
The $5 trillion US chip firm claims the RTX Spark is powerful enough to support on-device AI agents that can autonomously carry out tasks across applications – without the user needing to touch the mouse or keyboard.
“You set the objective. The machine handles the rest,” the firm’s marketing materials state. “There’s intelligence on both sides of the keyboard now.”
The new chip comes with up to 1 petaflop of compute and 128GB of memory and will only work with devices running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang compared the arrival of RTX Spark to the advent of the smartphone, turning a computer from a tool to a teammate.
“The PC is being reinvented,” Mr Huang said at the Computex conference in Taiwan on Monday.
“For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask – and the PC does the work… This is the new PC. The personal AI computer.”
The RTX Spark chip will be available on Windows laptops built by Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Microsoft – with models from Acer and Gigabyte expected to follow.
“Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
“RTX Spark marks a real breakthrough towards that vision.”
The AI boom in recent years has seen Nvidia rise to become the world’s most valuable company, with the company’s market cap rising more than 10-fold since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.
Nvidia’s share price rose a further six per cent following the unveiling of its latest RTX Spark chip.
