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Nvidia introduced the first personal computers designed to run artificial-intelligence agents and detailed the rollout of its Vera Rubin hardware suite during the Computex conference in Taipei on Sunday. The announcements reflect a strategic pivot by the chipmaker to accommodate a rapid industry shift toward autonomous task-completion bots, which are increasingly displacing conversational consumer interfaces.
The new laptop models feature the RTX Spark AI chip, which the company characterized as the most efficient PC processor ever produced. Nvidia will initially partner with six manufacturers—Dell Technologies, Lenovo Group, Microsoft, HP, Asus, and MSI—to produce roughly 30 laptop models and approximately 10 desktop models. The devices will measure as thin as 14 millimeters and the lightest units will weigh under 3 pounds. The hardware targets creators, developers, and gamers, positioning the new machines at the premium end of the consumer electronics market, according to Mark Aevermann, Nvidia’s senior director of product development.
The hardware expansion addresses a broad technological migration away from human-chatbot interactions and toward agentic computing. The proliferation of tens of millions of autonomous bots has redefined how companies architect their silicon tools for consumer applications.
“That era is ending,” said Kari Briski, Nvidia’s vice president for generative AI software, regarding the period dominated by human users conversing with chat platforms. “Agents are the new workload. They will run everywhere, from the data center to the edge.”
Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president for hyperscale and high-performance computing, told reporters that the industry focus has shifted. “AI is moving from answering questions to doing real work,” Buck said. He noted that satisfying enterprise customer needs now requires advanced networking hardware, programmable software libraries, and large-scale data-center clusters capable of integrating tens of thousands of processors.
Separately, Nvidia confirmed the status of its Vera Rubin hardware suite, which includes the company’s most powerful GPU to date, servers utilizing Vera CPUs, and inference chips customized by Groq—a technology company whose top leadership and intellectual property Nvidia purchased for $20 billion last year. The executives stated the suite is currently in full production and will begin shipping to enterprise customers in the fourth quarter of the calendar year.
Nvidia also announced an expanded agreement with Unitree, a Chinese robotics company, to establish a new design template for robotics hardware. Under the arrangement, physical components will be supplied by Unitree, taking advantage of established manufacturing capacity, while the system software and processing architectures will be provided by Nvidia and American firms. A company official said U.S. enterprises are among Unitree’s largest customers, and that accessing Chinese physical components is currently the only way to accelerate domestic U.S. robotics activity at scale.
To address scrutiny from technology policymakers regarding foreign influence, the company official stated that operational data generated by the robotics systems will remain entirely with the user, alongside additional security precautions designed to isolate the hardware from remote access.