Jensen Huang says Nvidia is focused on 'reinventing the PC' not handhelds

Nvidia's first full SoC for the PC, RTX Spark, is finally here. When asked whether it might form the basis of a gaming handheld, Jensen Huang said the company is focused on "reinventing the PC after 40 years." Huang described launching a PC chip as a "gigantic project," saying that Windows and x86 applications must be proven to work well and that games need anti-cheat enabled: "all of that stuff is really, really hard." He added it took "three years working with Microsoft and two and a half years working with MediaTek" and "hundreds of people" to get to this point.

The full RTX Spark chip is probably not suited to handhelds: it has 20 Arm cores and a GPU with "pretty much identical specs to a desktop RTX 5070 GPU," making it too large and powerful for such devices, even if Nvidia claims battery life will be "much better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops." The RTX Spark box fits in the hand, but that may be as close as we'll get for now.

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