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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 14, 2026Published at 2:06 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops ship this week from $2,599 with up to 128GB of unified memory
Microsoft, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI are launching machines on NVIDIA's Arm-based superchip, and NVIDIA says the main Windows applications are ready for it.
NVIDIA says the PC software ecosystem is ready for RTX Spark, its Arm-based laptop superchip with up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute. Most systems begin shipping October 16, and HP's two models follow on November 4.…
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