NVIDIA unveils RTX Spark superchip and Vera CPU at Computex

At Computex Taipei, Jensen Huang introduced the RTX Spark superchip, pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU delivering one petaflop across 6,144 CUDA cores with a custom 20-core Grace CPU — co-developed with MediaTek and linked via NVLink — and 128GB of unified memory. NVIDIA also detailed its Vera CPU aimed at data-center agentic AI workloads, with rollout expected in Q3 2026.

The RTX Spark marks a deliberate push into consumer and personal-AI computing: Microsoft's Satya Nadella posted that 'our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows,' calling RTX Spark 'a real breakthrough' and confirming Jensen would join him live at Build. The unified-memory design targets running large models locally rather than round-tripping to the cloud.

Competitively, the consumer pivot was welcomed, but developers flagged mounting accelerator competition — ARM, Qualcomm and Cerebras are all challenging NVIDIA's dominance, and the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-on-AMD-MI300X benchmarks circulating this week underscore that NVIDIA hardware is no longer the only option. NVIDIA's counter is vertical integration: pairing its GPUs with custom CPUs and a software stack rivals can't easily match. Watch for pricing and availability details at Build, and whether 'unmetered local intelligence' on Windows is real or aspirational given the model sizes that actually fit in 128GB.