By Ryan Smith
Publication Date: 2026-10-08 01:00:00
Microsoft today has formally launched its Surface Laptop Ultra, the first in a series of developer-focused machines from the company that are based around NVIDIA’s RTX Spark processor. The consumer iteration of NVIDIA’s GB10 chip, which has been gracing Linux-based AI mini-PCs for the past year as part of NVIDIA’s DGX Spark ecosystem, RTX Spark marks the chip’s formal entrance into the consumer market. And, for partner Microsoft, the company gets the honor of being one of the first vendors to ship an RTX Spark laptop with its Surface Laptop Ultra.
Itself the new face of Microsoft’s high-end laptop lineup, the Surface Laptop Ultra is a fresh effort to jump-start the Windows-on-Arm ecosystem with some powerful mobile hardware, all the while serving as Microsoft’s latest effort to woo developers and impress upon them the importance of developing for Arm, and not just for x86. The new Surface laptop…
