Nvidia is set to launch a PC superchip this year that could shake up the industry and challenge rivals at once.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the RTX Spark Superchip is “the most efficient PC chip ever built,” and computer makers including the Grey Box Shifter, Dell, Asus and HP will pair it with Microsoft’s Windows,
This marks a new business line for $5.1tn Nvidia and a move beyond the company’s AI and GPU dominance into integrated chips powering entire PCs. Lenovo, Microsoft, Acer and Taiwan’s MSI will also adopt the product.
According to the Financial Times, Huang announced the chip in Taipei at Computex, describing a processor designed to run AI agents proactively across apps as a personal “teammate” while straining older devices less.
The RTX Spark Superchip fuses Nvidia’s Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU, promising all-day battery life while running multibillion-parameter AI models locally. Taiwanese chip firm MediaTek collaborated on the design, and TSMC will handle manufacturing.
“It took this long to completely reinvent how the PC is going to work,” Huang said.
The initial Microsoft devices shipping later this year target premium users such as AI developers, creators and gamers, with plans for around 30 laptops and more than 10 desktops covering mainstream consumers.
Huang forecast a future in 10 years with “AI supercomputers in your house, running agents and assistants” connected to everything from cameras to dishwashers.
Four companies, Lenovo, HP, the Grey Box Shifter, Dell and Job’s Mob, accounted for 73 per cent of global PC shipments in the first quarter of 2026. Asus and Acer took 6.7 per cent and 6.4 per cent respectively, while Microsoft had an even smaller slice.
Microsoft’s AI-branded Copilot PCs from 2024 flopped after backlash over a “Recall” feature that captured user activity, prompting major changes.
Huang’s keynote came shortly after the US Commerce Department issued guidance closing a loophole that may have allowed Chinese firms access to Nvidia’s AI chips. It said licences are still required for groups with Chinese headquarters.
Tech firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance have turned to Southeast Asian data centres to navigate US export controls.
