Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduces the RTX Spark laptop during his keynote speech at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 1, 2026. I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia has emerged as the world's most valuable company by dominating the market for AI chips in the data center. Now the company is expanding its prowess to chips that will serve as the main processor for personal computers, entering an arena that's long been ruled by Intel , Advanced Micro Devices , Qualcomm and Apple . During a keynote address at Taiwan's Computex conference on Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new N1X processor made alongside Microsoft . It will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from Microsoft, Dell , HP , ASUS , Lenovo and MSI . "This reinvention of the computer is as big of a deal as the reinvention of the phone into what we now know as the smartphone," Huang said, pointing to the fact agentic AI will run across all the new computers. "Microsoft and Nvidia are going to reinvent the PC," he added. "This is the first completely re-engineered, reinvented line of PCs that has happened in 40 years." Nvidia's initial plan includes more than 30 laptops and 10 desktops with the new chip, a Nvidia spokesperson said. The debut PC processor is made up of two flagship types of Nvidia chips fused together, plus 128 gigabytes of unified memory. …