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Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark AI chip

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Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a new 15-inch device designed to compete with the MacBook Pro. This laptop is powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark Superchip, featuring 20 Arm CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, delivering up to 1 petaflop of AI performance. It boasts a high-resolution MiniLED display with 2,000 nits of brightness, up to 128GB of unified RAM, and a comprehensive port selection. The Surface Laptop Ultra is slated for release this fall, targeting AI developers, creators, and power users. AI

IMPACT This device could accelerate AI development and content creation on Windows by enabling local execution of larger models.

RANK_REASON This is a significant product launch featuring a new AI-focused chip from NVIDIA integrated into a major hardware manufacturer's flagship device.

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Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark AI chip

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Engadget TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Devindra Hardawar) ·

    The Surface Laptop Ultra is the most powerful Surface yet, thanks to NVIDIA's RTX Spark

    Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is basically a MacBook Pro clone (that's powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark).

  2. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Kunal Khullar ·

    Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra weilds Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of RAM, 20 Arm CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU — 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra display rounds out the powerful package

    Powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip, the Surface Laptop Ultra features 20 Arm CPU cores, 6,144 CUDA cores, and up to 128GB of unified memory

  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra weilds Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of RAM, 20 Arm CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU — 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra

    Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra weilds Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of RAM, 20 Arm CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU — 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra display rounds out th… Powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip, the Surface Laptop Ultra features 20 Arm CPU cores, 6,14…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/microsoft-surface-lapt…

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