NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip could give Windows its true Apple Silicon moment – Engadget

There’s a lot we still don’t know about NVIDIA’s RTX Spark AI chip — we’re still waiting on deeper technical details and pricing for the first batch of systems — but it has a decent shot of changing the way we think of Windows PCs entirely. RTX Spark should offer the raw performance that the first batch of Copilot+ systems lacked, and it will also push Microsoft to make the Windows experience even better for Arm CPUs (something I argued was the real highlight of the whole Copilot+ initiative, more so than AI support).

With Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon chips powering low-end and mid-range Windows PCs, there’s room for NVIDIA to fill the gap at the high end, delivering powerful (and likely very expensive) PCs that will appeal to memory-hungry content creators, developers and AI enthusiasts.

Windows might finally get its Apple Silicon moment this year — a bigger push to optimize the aging OS for more efficient Arm chips, while also rethinking what’s possible when you can give GPUs direct access to insane gobs of memory. The MacBook Pro comparisons were immediately clear from the first batch of RTX Spark machines like the Surface Pro Ultra and ASUS’s new ProArt systems. Of course, powerful Windows laptops are nothing new, but they typically had tradeoffs like thick and heavy cases, or enormous battery-draining power demands. What if you could get a powerhouse PC that didn’t feel like a brick, and also lasted as long as…