Microsoft and NVIDIA announce new notebook PC "Surface Laptop Ultra", enhance AI performance

On May 31st (local time), Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a new notebook PC designed in collaboration with NVIDIA. Equipped with NVIDIA's latest processor "RTX Spark", it will be released in the fall of 2026 as a model with the highest processing performance in Surface history. The price has not yet been determined.

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At its heart, RTX Spark is a system-on-chip (SoC) that combines a 20-core Arm architecture CPU with the latest Blackwell generation GPU core. Equipped with up to 128GB of unified memory and dynamically allocating memory between the CPU and GPU, it delivers 1PFLOPS of AI calculation performance.

This allows large-scale AI models with up to 120 billion parameters to be run directly in the local environment. It also has its own NPU and is compliant with Microsoft's "Copilot+ PC" category.

On the software side, major creative applications such as Adobe products and Blender run comfortably in their native environment, and the emulator ``Prism'', which runs traditional x86 applications on Arm, has been optimized for RTX Spark.

The display uses a 15-inch "mini-LED PixelSense Ultra" touch screen. It supports 2000 nits peak brightness (HDR), the brightest surface ever, and a pixel density of 262ppi. Furthermore, the touchpad is the largest in the Surface series, and it also features haptic feedback.

Interfaces include HDMI output, USB Type-C, USB Standard-A, SD memory card slot, and headphone terminal. It also supports Windows Hello using facial recognition. The main body is less than 18mm thick and weighs less than 2kg.

The battery is said to last all day and maintain performance even when running on battery. The main body color is available in two colors: platinum and nightfall.