By Nadia Dubois
Publication Date: 2026-10-17 06:12:00
Nvidia is no longer content being the chip inside someone else’s laptop. On October 16, 2026, the company confirmed that NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are available today from six major PC makers, a launch that pairs Nvidia’s own Grace CPU and Blackwell RTX GPU inside a single Windows 11 machine for the first time. Starting at $2,599, the lineup marks the clearest step yet toward Nvidia selling not just the silicon, but the whole computing platform underneath it.
The announcement, detailed in Nvidia’s investor relations release, lists ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI as launch partners, each shipping its own RTX Spark-based model. That is a notable list: five of the six are Nvidia’s longtime GPU customers, now building machines around a chip platform Nvidia designed almost entirely in-house. For a company that built a $5 trillion-plus valuation on selling components to other people’s finished products, RTX…