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The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm - The Verge
Publisher description: Nvidia’s new laptops will run all your apps and games, the company claims.
NewsAPI | Oct 15, 2026 | Sean Hollister
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The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripped-down version of Windows on an Nvidia Tegra chip, bombed so hard that Microsoft had to write off $900 million in inventory. The problem was that Nvidia’s Arm chip couldn’t run existing Windows apps. Buyers had to leave their legacy programs behind. 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. And in 2024, the Prism emulator got its first outing when Qualcomm launched the first well-received Windows on Arm machines, including the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition.
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