Nvidia's Huang calls Surface Laptop Ultra 'a work of love' as first Nvidia-powered Microsoft PC arrives

"This computer is going to be incredible — it took us four years to build it," Huang told attendees, according to TechRadar Pro. "This project is really a work of love — we had several thousand engineering years dedicated to it, we build a brand new revolutionary chip, a whole new line of PCs."

Microsoft revealed the Surface Laptop Ultra in September 2026. According to TechRadar, the device is aimed at developers and AI workloads and runs on Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, pairing an N1X processor with RTX Blackwell graphics and support for up to 128GB of unified memory. The report listed configurations of 24GB RAM with 512GB storage and, in a next version, 32GB RAM with 1TB storage, positioning the machine for creators, AI specialists, engineers, scientists and developers running demanding applications. TechRadar reported that the device was set to launch on October 16, 2026.

Huang traced the project to a question about agentic and autonomous AI systems that could reach a user's files, ground themselves in information, reason about it and operate tools. "The ultimate tool is your personal computer, right?" he said. He described wanting a PC that could run an agent locally, work on tasks unattended and be smart enough to use software tools — for instance, rendering images or updating slides after the user sends instructions by message. "Wouldn't it be awesome if you could just text your computer — you don't have to bring it with you anymore — just leave it at your desk," he said.

Delivering that required new silicon, Huang said. He recounted calling Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, then waiting for the Blackwell architecture to be finished. The resulting chip, he said, delivers one petaflop of computing and is Nvidia's first GPU with shared memory, a redesign he attributed to expectations that AI models would grow large. He added that the machine must also run everything a conventional PC runs.

Huang drew a distinction between three categories of computer: the ordinary PC used for typing, Nvidia's GeForce-based gaming PCs, and Nvidia workstations that run a wide range of applications. Because an AI agent may need to use any tool, he said, the new machine "runs every AI framework, it runs any AI model as well."

The remarks were reported by TechRadar Pro from a developer event in London; Microsoft did not issue a separate statement in the account.