By Michael Kan
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 16:30:00
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX Spark PC chip is coming to laptops, but also mini PCs, and Microsoft will be among the vendors developing one.
At its Build conference, Microsoft introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev box, which has been designed to run Windows 11 Pro and has enough computing power to run AI models locally.
The mini PC isn’t exactly for consumers, though; Microsoft is pitching it to software developers looking to prototype, fine-tune, and run their own AI models on their desk, rather than sourcing compute power from costly cloud-based servers.
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As an RTX Spark device, the mini PC can run large language models with up to 120 billion parameters. The mini PC uses Nvidia’s Arm-based PC chip,…
