This news from Seeking Alpha -

NVIDIA on Monday (1 june) unveiled NVIDIA RTX Spark, a new superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for
the era of personal AI agents, featuring 1 petaflop of AI performance, power efficiency, full-stack NVIDIA AI and graphics technology, and up to 128 GB of unified memory.

Starting this fall, Nvidia’s new RTX Spark Superchip will debut in laptop and desktop computers from leading PC brands including Dell Technologies and Lenovo Group.

Microsoft will join Nvidia at two key industry conferences next week (I assume that means the week of 1 june, just started) to launch the first Windows computers that use Nvidia’s chips as the main processor, Axios reported on Saturday (30 may).

One wonders if these new speed demons are backwards compatible, or are we stuck waiting for audio
developers to re-do their software. Or maybe we can do just fine without this kind of speed??

update:
This added information from the italian on-line news site, Il Sole 24 Ore:

(first the english then the original) -

The product is a combintion of microprocessor and graphics chip, realized with the support of MediaTek in Taiwan...it will run Microsoft's Windows for Arm operating system.

Il prodotto è una combinazione di microprocessore e chip grafico, realizzata con il supporto della taiwanese MediaTek, e farà girare il sistema operativo Windows for Arm di Microsoft.

Again, do we have a compatibility issue here??

 

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I'll check it out as a curious nerd. Will they have the RAM embedded on the main chip like Apple's?

But Nvidia APU + Microsoft OS = AIAAIAIAIAIAGENTSaiaiaiaiaiAGENTSAGENTSAGENTSaiaiaiaiAGENTS

So my hopes as a consumer... don't exist. Glad for the super wealthy who can afford this I guess (?)

 

Yes, we do. Since these will be ARM chips, they will run ARM apps at full speeds and rely on emulation for backwards x64 compatibility.

How well that will work, and at what speed, compared to price point. I will let others test and benchmark before I go anywhere near of those things.
They will probably be outside of any reasonable price range anyway.

After Nvidia did everything it possibly could to screw over the consumer market, and their last 2 generations of consumer graphics cards were majorly flops, it's hard to imagine them making anything good for the consumer market any more, other than to milk whatever trust remains with shoddy products.

 

Yep, that'll be interesting to watch. Microsoft can no longer code a freaking Notepad so funny times ahead of us

well, flops for the consumers, success in sells because there's no competition

that's a fact. NVIDIA is now a 99% AI-focused company because, well, money.

 

Yes. It's kinda ironic though that half a decade of developing for Apple M will give developers a head start in transitioning their Windows software to the ARM instruction set - if they're using architecture specific instructions at all.

Still, this is Microsoft and not Apple. MS doesn't have Apple's dictatorial Eisenfaust, so the transition is going to take much, much longer. Even more so because this is 2026 and who's going to make risky investments in computing equipment you might have to depend on for 7+ years with this economy?

Like I said a couple years ago, don't worry too much until 2030 rolls around.

Hum, my reading: RAM is unified, on-package & inside the SoC (like Apple M), with Nvidia's interlink connecting it to the CPU and GPU. Bandwidth looks to be 273 GB/s (so Apple M4 Pro, or M5 Pro if you round up).

 

i hope its not too expensive.. anyway

 

F*** AI, I want to buy one more audio friendly CPU and then I'm going offline.

 

I hate both Microsoft and Nvidia, but nonetheless a functional Windows ARM computer with a compatibility layer is a great thing to have. I don't think I care enough to have one, but the effect it has on laptops and SBCs are a step forward. I didn't have faith in the M1 chips but I was proved wrong, they're great computers for people who don't want to think about computers. Maybe if it gets really cheap eventually I might even get one for my living room.

 

I only know one system: VHS!
I only know one CPU: AMD Ryzen!
I only know two sound formats: WAV and MP3!