SILICON By Matthew S. Smith After more than a year of rumors and, if those rumors are believed, some delays, NVIDIA’s new system on a chip for Windows PCs was revealed at Computex 2026. It’s called RTX Spark, and it’s coming to Windows PCs this fall. RTX Spark will launch with a single chip in […]

On Monday, NVIDIA shook up the processor market with its introduction of the NVIDIA RTX Spark chip at the opening of the COMPUTEX trade show in Taiwan. The stock market reacted quickly; NVIDIA up seven percent, Intel down two percent. This coming Monday, the newsletter will feature an article by our own Matthew S. Smith […]

SILICON By Matthew S. Smith Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 chips are mighty, but Windows on Arm can still be a mighty pain in the neck. In May 2024, I took the train up to Seattle for Microsoft’s Build developer conference. It’s usually a series of nerdy talks from passionate developers that end up overshadowed by hyper-corporate […]

Last week, Intel had a relatively low-key event called Intel Pro Day 2026. It was about processors in the Core Ultra Series 3 lineup that are designated “vPro Eligible.” vPro chips are intended for the commercial market, with manageability and security built in. As best I can determine, all the new Ultra 3 chips with […]