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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 3, 2026Published at 2:33 AM EDT · New York
Nvidia's 64GB DGX Spark Lists at $4,999, Above Last Year's 128GB Launch Price
Nvidia attributes the increase to memory supply and cost, as dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) contract prices climb and producers shift output toward high-bandwidth memory for data centers.
Nvidia announced a 64GB configuration of DGX Spark, its desktop system for local model development. The company pitches it at developers who run open-weight models and agents on their own hardware rather than through a cloud API. Nvidia's p…
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