Microsoft, Nvidia CEOs to Unveil New AI Laptop at San Francisco Event
The high-end Windows laptop uses Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip and Copilot features that split work between the device and the cloud.
- On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box in San Francisco, with preorders live and the laptop shipping Oct. 16 starting at $2,599.
- Powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark architecture combining a Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU, the devices enable Hybrid Intelligence; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said this makes AI "everywhere and pervasive."
- The hardware supports up to 128GB of unified memory and delivers 1 petaflop of AI performance, while Microsoft offers up to $1,000 trade-in credit for eligible MacBook Pro owners.
- Rising memory costs have pushed prices significantly higher; Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Anshel Sag warned that expensive hardware limits adoption primarily to enterprise customers and high-end developers.
- Microsoft introduced "Execution Containers" to restrict AI agent system access, a security framework that OpenAI and Nvidia have adopted for Windows 11 to prevent unauthorized autonomous actions.
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A laptop with enough power to compete with the MacBook Pro
With the Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft introduced the most powerful member of its Surface family on Wednesday evening. Powered by the new processor platform RTX Spark, it is supposed to be able to perform even demanding AI models locally and offer sufficient computing power "for sophisticated creative and technical workflows. However, this has its price.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Seol Won-tae = Microsoft (MS) has revealed the price and release date of the 'Surface Laptop Ultra,' a laptop equipped with NVIDIA's RTX Spark...
Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop
"The trajectory for me is so clear. There will never be a moment where we will go and look and say: 'Oh, this runs locally, this runs in the cloud.' You will expect this hybrid intelligence to be everywhere and pervasive," CEO Satya Nadella said
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