Nvidia has announced its full-scale entry into the PC business, including laptops and desktops. The company redefined the PC not merely as a personal computing device, but as an “AI-native” personal computing platform where AI acceleration hardware and an agent operating system are organically integrated.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said at the 'GTC Taipei 2026' event held at the Taipei Music Center (TMC) in Taipei, Taiwan on June 1, “Microsoft and Nvidia intend to completely reinvent the PC.” He added, “I recently met with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and had a deep conversation. We have been working closely with Microsoft for the past three years to fundamentally change the way PCs work.”
On this day, Huang showcased for the first time the Nvidia 'RTX Spark' chip, which will become the core of AI PCs. This chip is applied with TSMC's 3-nanometer process technology, and features 6,144 cores, 128 gigabytes of unified memory, and 70 billion transistors. It is a high-performance chip based on the Blackwell architecture.
“RTX Spark is the result of condensing all the technological know-how that Nvidia has accumulated over the past 33 years into a single chip,” Huang explained. “It will be compatible with Windows and CUDA while serving as an acceleration base that deploys AI performance to the absolute limit.”
The background behind Nvidia's move to fundamentally restructure the PC market in partnership with Microsoft is the paradigm shift centered on AI 'agents.' While PCs of the past were passive tools where users typed commands and clicked, the vision for future PCs is to evolve into an 'intelligent companion' that understands and interacts with the user.
Huang defined, “The new operating system (OS) of the future will be a form in which a large language model (LLM) is organically combined with an existing traditional OS.” He continued, “In many ways, LLM is a modern version and intelligent extension of DirectX, which led the PC graphics revolution in the past.” Accordingly, it is projected that existing individual applications will naturally be replaced by modern agents based on agentic runtime.
Huang expressed confidence in the future of the PC market, citing the emergence and evolution of smartphones in the past as an example. He emphasized, “If you think about the concept of a phone when it first appeared 20 years ago, smartphones today have a completely different meaning from the past.” He added, “A PC 10 years from now will also be a completely different platform from the tool for clicking and typing that we think of today.”
Taipei (Taiwan) = Lee Hyung-doo, reporter dudu@etnews.com
