Key Facts
- The Nvidia-powered Microsoft Surface Ultra is the first full-fledged Windows PC to run on an Nvidia main processor, designed for work beyond standard laptops.
- The device will be powered by the RTX Spark chip and is expected to have a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, with options for up to 128GB of unified memory and ability to run AI models with up to 120 billion parameters.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated, "The PC is being reinvented... With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work."
- Microsoft corporate VP Brett Ostrom mentioned that they built the Surface Laptop Ultra to meet demanding work requirements without flinching.
- Microsoft announced that the Surface Ultra will be released later this year, although they provided no price details.
- Nvidia stated that laptops powered by its chips would start shipping this fall.
- Nvidia unveiled the first personal laptop computers designed for running artificial-intelligence “agents,” using a newly designed version of the company’s signature AI chips.
- The new PCs will be as slim as 14 millimeters thick, and the lightest will weigh less than 3 pounds.
- Eventually, there will be 30 laptop models and about 10 desktop models using the new chips, developed from Nvidia’s graphics-processing unit.
- NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows is announced as the world’s most powerful deskside AI supercomputer, capable of running frontier AI models of up to 1 trillion parameters locally, and built on the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, expected to launch in Q4 2026.
- DGX Station for Windows enables enterprise developers, researchers, engineers, designers, and data scientists to build and deploy AI across their workflows and applications.
- The DGX Station features up to 748GB of coherent memory and is capable of up to 20 petaflops of FP4 performance.
- DGX Station for Windows will be available from several manufacturers including ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HP, and Supermicro.