The moment many have been waiting years for has arrived. Nvidia has long made graphics cards that powered the Windows PC ecosystem for decades—now it wants to control the whole thing with “superchips,” starting with the RTX Spark.

Announced over the weekend at the Computex tech expo in Taiwan, RTX Spark chips combine unified memory, RTX graphics, and the new part: the N1 CPU. Nvidia already owns the entire world of AI processed in data centers with its GPUs. But now it's making its play for locally run AI too.

While they need to be tested, and prices are still undetermined, these new Nvidia laptops look truly like real AI PCs. The combination of unified memory up to 128 GB, an efficient Arm-based CPU, and the company's trademark RTX graphics cards gives you a computer unheard of outside the MacBook Pro.

It’s not just about more memory. It’s also the fact that the graphics will be up to as powerful as a discrete RTX 5070. And it’s also the software layer (known as CUDA) that allows developers to access the system's GPU cores. Nvidia has built a highly developed AI platform around CUDA because of its use in data centers. Bringing that AI processing prowess to local PCs could mean AI performance that pulls far more out of the hardware than current computers do.

Don't be fooled into thinking these will be priced affordably. Some reports estimate that prices for high-end configurations of RTX Spark laptops will be over $4,000. That shouldn't come as a shock, as that's what a similarly configured MacBook Pro costs these days. These devices may start at lower-powered configurations to reach broader audiences.