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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 29, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops go on sale from six PC makers with up to 128 GB of unified memory for local models
The RTX N1X chip pairs a 20-core Grace Arm CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU on Windows 11 on Arm, and reported starting prices are $2,399 to $2,599.
NVIDIA said on Oct. 28 that RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. The company also announced new local models, agent tools and games for the platform. The laptops use the RTX N1X, a single chip…
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Over the next 3-6 months, smaller efficient architectures and inference-cost optimizations push capable AI off the cloud and onto laptops, phones, and mobile NPUs.
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