The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
AI summary
Editorial policyThe article explores Nvidia's RTX Spark and its potential to run 'everything' on Arm, contrasting it with the historical failure of the original Microsoft Surface PC.
Key points
- •Fourteen years ago, Microsoft's original Surface PC, powered by an Nvidia Tegra chip, was a major failure that resulted in a $900 million inventory write-off.
- •The primary reason to care about Nvidia's RTX Spark is that 'everything' is expected to run on the Arm architecture.
- •The article draws a parallel between the past failure of the Surface and the current trajectory of Arm-based computing.