Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new 'superchip' powering
Windows laptops
[June 02, 2026] By
CHAN HO-HIM and TAIJING WU
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Nvidia on Monday unveiled new powerful chips that
would bring advanced artificial intelligence functions into laptops and
desktop computers, with the new personal computer models from brands
including Microsoft and Dell set to roll out later this year.
While Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia has already been massively
successful in supplying high-end chips for data centers riding the
worldwide AI demand boom, it is plotting different plans to expand its
presence across AI systems and products.
Jensen Huang, the Taiwanese American founder and CEO of Nvidia, made the
announcement in Taipei at the annual Nvidia GTC event. Microsoft and
Nvidia “are going to reinvent the PC (personal computer),” he said in
his keynote speech.
“This is going to be the new PC,” Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia’s RTX
Spark superchip — which combines CPU, or central processing unit, and
GPU, or graphics processing unit, capabilities — that would power new
Windows laptop and desktop computer models in what the company called
“AI personal computers,” expected to debut in the fall of this year.
Nvidia is already the world’s most valuable company, ahead of Apple,
Google’s parent Alphabet and Microsoft. Its new superchips for PCs will
challenge chipmaking rivals including Intel and AMD. Nvidia's shares
were up nearly 4% in early U.S. trading, while Intel and AMD both fell
more than 3%.
The company said it will be “reinventing the personal computer” for
creating and gaming. “When it has an autonomous (AI) agent, an agent
that’s helping you, that understands you, you could talk to it. It could
look at you. You could ask it to read files, go help you do some
research. It could do a lot more,” Huang said.
Microsoft said in a separate statement that the personal computers
running on Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchips would be able to support
“highly capable AI models” and complex workloads. With the new
superchips, these personal computers can run AI agents locally, Nvidia
said.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech during the Computex 2026
exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Chiang
Ying-ying)
 “This is the first across the lineup
of PC reinvention for 40 years,” said Huang.
Nvidia’s move is significant at a time when demand is growing for
the use of personal AI agents, said Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at
the technology research and advisory group Omdia.
“For consumers, it means more choices, which is always a good
thing,” Su said.
Neil Shah, analyst and co-founder of Counterpoint Research,
described Nvidia’s announcement as a move that’s “revolutionizing
how PCs would look like in the next 10 years.”
The new laptops and desktop computers “will drive agentic AI
applications in every home,” Shah said, with an aim of having an “AI
supercomputer” in each household.
Also during Monday’s speech, Nvidia’s Huang said its new Vera CPUs
for data centers are in full production and are “going to be our new
major growth driver” on the boom of AI agents, with early customers
including Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.
Huang also revealed a humanoid robot reference design that could act
as a blueprint for future research, especially within the higher
education sector. Nvidia said its “Isaac GR00T” stands nearly six
feet tall and has the humanoid chassis of Chinese robot maker
Unitree’s H2. It is equipped with five-fingered dexterous hands,
made by Singapore-based robotics startup Sharpa, that are capable of
finely controlled movements.
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Chan reported from Hong Kong.
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