By John Burek
Publication Date: 2026-06-05 17:52:00
Alongside Nvidia’s keynote at Computex, Microsoft announced a new Surface PC—the Surface Laptop Ultra—which will feature Nvidia’s new RTX Spark superchip.
Slated to launch this fall, the Surface Laptop Ultra bridges the gap between thin-and-light ultraportables and beefy workstation laptops, offering the template for a new consumer category that can drive a full petaflop of AI-ready compute power. It’s the next phase of evolution for AI PCs, combining Copilot+ features with the raw muscle to power on-device AI models and agents.
At Computex, to learn more, I sat down with Microsoft’s Poonam Mor Sigroha, corporate vice president for Windows silicon and systems integration; Brett Ostrum, corporate vice president for Surface; and Robyn McLaughlin, Senior Director, Surface Product. Our interview is lightly edited for clarity.
An Agentic AI Platform
John Burek: RTX Spark looks like it will first be an AI agentic-dominant platform. Is there anything you would say that, in a couple of years, a mainstream consumer would be looking at RTX Spark for? What do you see in terms of the roadmap that was presented by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and also your vision for this two years, three years, four years down the road?
Poonam Mor Sigroha: I believe when we think of mainstream, we think of that being a very different class of devices than what we’re introducing today. These devices are primarily focused on developers, people who want to run AI agents locally. In a few…
