Microsoft has confirmed it will be hosting an event in San Francisco on 7 October, speaking on “how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC”. The event is also likely the launch of the Surface Laptop Ultra, which is one of the laptops powered by the long-awaited NVIDIA RTX Spark processor.
To that end, Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, and Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, will both be present at the event, along with Microsoft Executive Vice President of Windows & Devices, Pavan Davuluri. While there, the trio is expected to speak and share their latest innovations across Windows, NVIDIA RTX Spark, and the Surface lineup in the “broader PC ecosystem”.
The Surface Laptop Ultra is obviously, for us at least, expected to be the highlight of the show, given that it is one of the laptops that’s powered by the coveted chip: the RTX Spark. We’ve gushed a lot about it, and we’ll do it here again, but in broad strokes.
The SoC was designed and built in collaboration with MediaTek, and is an ARM-based processor, made up of the 20 Grace CPU cores; 6,144 Blackwell RTX GPU cores; 5th-generation Tensor Cores, and 128GB of Unified Memory.NVIDIA says that the chipset outputs 1 Petaflop of FP4 performance, thanks to each component being connected via its own NVLink-C2C interconnect link.
What we are curious about is whether or not Microsoft plans on releasing multiple SKUs of the Surface Laptop Ultra. We wonder about this because, as per our earlier report, Asus is planning on releasing a total of five configurations of its RTX Spark-powered ProArt P14. These configurations are basically different Unified Memory capacities, ranging from 24GB to the full 128GB of LPDDR5X.
In conjunction with the upcoming launch event, Microsoft has also been posting on its social media accounts, but as these things go, they’re devoid of any actual information. Beyond the obvious Surface Laptop Ultra plug, there’s not much else we can glean. We’ll just have to wait until the stated date.
