When Apple launched its first M-series chips in 2020, it didn't just replace Intel processors inside Macs. It fundamentally changed expectations around what a laptop could be.
Suddenly, users no longer had to choose between performance and battery life. MacBooks became thinner, quieter and significantly more powerful, while a unified memory architecture allowed them to handle everything from video editing to AI workloads with remarkable efficiency.
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Six years later, Nvidia believes the next major shift in personal computing will not be driven by traditional applications at all, but by artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
At Computex 2026 in Taiwan, the company unveiled RTX Spark chip and with it, it is attempting something remarkably similar to what Apple did with Apple Silicon. Combine CPU, GPU and memory into a single system designed around a new era of computing. The difference is that while Apple built its chips around the Mac, Nvidia is building RTX Spark around AI.
What is Nvidia RTX Spark?
RTX Spark is Nvidia's first serious attempt to move beyond discrete graphics cards and power entire personal computers.
