Nvidia revealed on Monday a new PC chip expected this fall that brings AI capabilities directly to laptops and desktops instead of relying on external servers.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who is in Taiwan for the Computex conference, said the RTX Spark PC chip is part of Nvidia’s effort with Microsoft.
The chip runs AI agents locally instead of relying solely on cloud computing. Huang said he developed it with Taiwan’s MediaTek.
This direction shows companies investing heavily in local models instead of relying only on enormous cloud services — an area that still helps Nvidia sell GPUs.
Nvidia decided to launch a chip that lets you run models locally, which might affect their short-term investment in GPU cards for external servers.
“The RTX Spark looks to transform the traditional app-centric PC to a real, useful agentic AI personal computer which will eventually be in every home in the coming years as private edge AI agents become pivotal,” said Neil Shah, Counterpoint Research co-founder.
“This is going to be the ‘RTX Spark’ moment for the personal computing segment, like how iPhone, ChatGPT or DeepSeek have been.”
The new chip and Nvidia’s Vera central processing unit underscore the company’s increasing focus on PC and CPU products, with Huang spending much of his keynote highlighting the RTX Spark PC chip and Vera CPU.
This is different from what we saw earlier, when Nvidia was focusing on GPUs for gaming and AI last year.
The Vera CPU is designed for AI agents, and early adopters include OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX, the boss of the $5 trillion chip company said.
Although it’s unclear whether Nvidia will focus entirely on CPUs, recent updates make it abundantly clear that the company is ready to invest heavily in them.
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