Nvidia kicked off Taipei’s massive Computex trade show on Sunday with a literal flash. The company introduced a new PC processor called the RTX Spark, labeling it a “superchip,” and announced a lineup of major PC manufacturers that will soon release AI-powered devices featuring this technology. According to Nvidia, this lightning-fast chip—capable of 1 petaflop of performance—is built to securely run AI agents such as OpenClaw or Hermes Agent. These RTX Spark Windows PCs are set to arrive this fall from brands including ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI, with Acer and Gigabyte models following later. Beyond incorporating secure sandboxes (co-developed with Microsoft) for safe agent execution, the PCs will boast sufficient CPU, GPU, RAM, and underlying Nvidia CUDA software to run local versions of large language models. Nvidia claims its RTX technology will provide faster AI performance, superior image quality, and support for AI features across over 1,000 games and applications. The chipmaker is positioning this as an option for creators producing AI content, as well as a major upgrade for its traditional gaming audience. Nvidia noted that more than 100 Windows software developers have committed to supporting the new chip, including Adobe, Blender, ComfyUI, Riot Games, and Xbox. However, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang envisions a much broader role for these PCs. He aims to eliminate the need to launch apps, point, click, and type. “With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask—and the PC does the work,” he stated in the press release. “Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop.”

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Last month, after yet another record-breaking quarter, Huang assured investors that he had identified a new $200 billion market for Nvidia in selling CPUs for AI, not just GPUs. He specifically referenced the high-end server CPU introduced earlier this year, called Vera—of which Nvidia claims to have already sold $20 billion worth. He also hinted at even greater ambitions. “We’ll have billions of agents, and those billions of agents will all use tools. And those tools are going to be like PCs, just like us humans using PCs today,” he said during the May earnings call. “We’re going to need a lot more CPUs.”

Nvidia’s ARM-based Windows devices have been attempted before—and failed. In 2013, Microsoft famously had to write off $900 million on its Nvidia ARM-based Surface RT, with partners like Dell also abandoning the product. But at this point, after delivering quarter after quarter of record revenue, it’s hard to bet against Huang as he once again pursues his PC ambitions. And this chip is an entirely different proposition. It’s more powerful, not less. Microsoft is positioning its own RTX Spark PC as so formidable that it named it the Surface Laptop Ultra, calling it “the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built.”

Still, PC manufacturers have not released many specifics about their individual offerings, including pricing. These systems appear to be full-fledged Windows versions of the DGX Spark mini-computer that Nvidia already sells to developers for around $4,800. It remains to be seen whether these PCs will compete on price with the affordable Mac Mini, which has become a popular choice for running OpenClaw. Alternatively, they might sit at the high end of the PC market, similar to Nvidia’s own agent-running mini computer. Either way, if Nvidia has cracked the code on bringing AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could—and should—be significant.