By Yahoo Finance Video
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 19:42:00
00:00 Brooke
Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs taking the stage together in San Francisco today to reveal a new AI laptop powered by Nvidia chips. Joining me now to break this all down is tech editor Dan Halley. Dan, break down what exactly this looks like, how does it feel, how is it different than maybe what we’ve seen in the past?
00:27 Dan Halley
Yeah, Brooke, this is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, and it’s the most powerful laptop that Microsoft has built to date. And as you said, the big deal here is that it’s powered by an Nvidia chip. It’s called the RTX Spark. This is a Blackwell-based chip. You’ll remember Blackwell is the platform that they build their data center chips on. Uh and so the push here is for on device AI, which is AI that can basically just run on your laptop or your desktop. In this case, Microsoft and Nvidia are saying, look, this thing is powerful enough to run big heavy-duty models. It has 128 gigabytes of up to 128 gigabytes of memory on board. Uh and they’re also doing some work with Windows in the background allowing for what’s known as hybrid AI. This is part of what’s called the orchestration layer or essentially what allows a computer to decide which model to use or which agent to use for what and when. Uh And so we’re seeing this kind of be pushed throughout the enterprise as well as increasingly consumer market. And so with Windows, that means that you’ll be able to use hybrid AI, which is uh AI locally as well as in…
