The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="An Nvidia RTX Spark chip aboard an Asus laptop motherboard. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/20261008_144946.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=12.666665649414,10.133333333333,77.466665649414,78.311116536458" /> <figcaption> An Nvidia RTX Spark chip aboard an Asus laptop motherboard. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/20/21029499/decade-fails-flops-tech-science-culture-apple-google-data-kickstarter-2010-2019#:~:text=%E2%80%94Andrew%20Hawkins-,20.%20Windows%20RT,-Windows%20RT%20started">the greatest tech flops</a> in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripped-down version of Windows on an Nvidia Tegra chip, bombed so hard that Microsoft <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/18/4535976/microsoft-lost-900-million-on-surface-rt">had to write off $900 million in inventory</a>.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The problem was that Nvidia's Arm chip couldn't run existing Windows apps. Buyers had to leave their legacy programs behind. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">This Friday, October 16th, Nvidia will once again be at the heart of Arm-powered Windows PCs with the first wave of RTX Spark laptops. But now, the company says, they'll run <em>everything</em>. Adobe. Offic …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011705/nvidia-rtx-spark-everything-runs-on-arm">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>