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Microsoft to sell $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra containing Nvidia AI chip
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Microsoft said its new laptop containing an Nvidia AI chip will start at $2,599, as the software maker tries to bring more artificial intelligence capabilities to its consumer devices.
Key facts
- The Blackwell RTX Spark GPU inside the computer has as much processing power as Nvidia's DGX-1 data center server from 2016, which cost $250 million, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at Wednesday's event
- The new device sports a 15-inch display and weighs 4.4 pounds
- Microsoft has been releasing its own computers since 2012, and CEO Satya Nadella indicated on Tuesday that the company's position in the market is evolving
- Microsoft said its new laptop containing an Nvidia AI chip will start at $2,599, as the software maker tries to bring more artificial intelligence capabilities to its consumer devices
Summary
While Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system for PCs, the company isn't among the top six PC vendors in terms of unit shipments, according to an estimate from researcher Gartner. Users can install and run a variety of models on the new laptop without having to worry about racking up high monthly bills. "Microsoft might get me back to Windows," Max Weinbach, an analyst at Creative Strategies, wrote on X after the announcement. Davuluri also said that Meta will introduce a version of its popular Muse AI agent for Windows, capitalizing on the surging popularity of the personal agent, which has jumped to the top of Apple's App store, surpassing ChatGPT.