NVIDIA’s RTX Spark takes the Arm-laptop fight straight to Intel and AMD
At Computex, NVIDIA showed RTX Spark, an Arm-based laptop chip developed with Microsoft that combines multi-core CPUs, Blackwell-class graphics, and on-device AI in one package. Machines are slated for around autumn 2026, and Adobe is rebuilding Photoshop and Premiere Pro to run natively on it.
Why it matters: NVIDIA already owns the datacenter AI market; RTX Spark is it trying to own the other end of the stack — the laptop on your desk — and the Microsoft partnership means it isn’t doing it as an outsider. The Adobe port is the tell: Windows-on-Arm has failed repeatedly because native apps weren’t there, so getting Photoshop and Premiere rebuilt natively is NVIDIA buying its way past the exact wall that sank earlier attempts. If this lands, it’s a genuine four-way fight — Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and now NVIDIA — in a market that was effectively a two-horse race for decades, and NVIDIA is the only entrant with a GPU story nobody can match. The bet underneath it is that “AI PC” stops being a marketing label and becomes a real spec buyers sort on, the way discrete graphics once was. The open question is whether on-device AI is actually a reason people buy a laptop yet, or whether NVIDIA is building the category before the demand for it exists.