This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark

Once upon a time, Microsoft He had to write off $900 million Betting that Nvidia’s Arm-based chip can power the first major Windows mobile device is… Original Microsoft Surface. But today she is trying again. Microsoft and Nvidia have just announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a computer with a new Arm-based Nvidia chip at its core.

There’s a lot we don’t know about the 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra, like its final specs or the vaguer idea of ​​how much it might cost. But Microsoft promises that this is the most powerful Surface device: “This is the most powerful thing we’ve ever made,” replies Microsoft Surface chief Andrew Hill when we ask how it’s put together.

And it is distinguished Nvidia’s new RTX Spark “superchip” It is almost the same processor that the company already sold DGX Spark mini PC for AI developersbut it’s now optimized to work with Windows 11 instead. This chip has up to 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores, and 128GB of unified memory, though some versions will be sold with up to 16GB — and Nvidia has told reporters in press conferences that the RTX Spark family will eventually expand to a range of prices.

In addition to this chip, which should deliver typical all-day battery life, roughly RTX 5070 laptop-level graphics, and up to 1 petaflop of AI computation, the Surface Laptop will have a small 15-inch LED touchscreen with 262 pixels per inch. Microsoft says it’s the “brightest display we’ve ever shipped” with 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness, and it’s the largest touch trackpad Microsoft has ever shipped on a Surface.

It will come in dark gray and silver, and should weigh less than 4.5 pounds.

Ports include USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, a full-size SD card slot and a headphone jack, though Microsoft hasn’t made clear what speeds or versions we’ll get of any of them yet. (Looks like we’ll be getting three USB-C ports?) Instead of those concrete details, Her blog post Amusingly filled with phrases like these:

The Surface Laptop Ultra won’t be the only device coming this fall with new Nvidia chips, but Microsoft is closely involved in the success of other RTX Spark laptops and mini PCs as well. Microsoft and Nvidia say they’ve been working together for years to get Windows ready for Arm devices like this, and for the RTX Spark specifically.

You can hear more about that at Our full RTX Spark storyand In a Microsoft blog post It talks about some specific modifications made to take advantage of the RTX Spark and the developers who were convinced to support Windows on Arm.