‘This computer is going to be incredible’: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why the new Surface Laptop Ultra is “truly a labor of love”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as “so beautiful” and “amazing.”
Speaking at a developer event in London, Huang described the development process that went into building the hardware that powers the new product, which is Microsoft’s first device powered by an Nvidia chip.
“This computer is going to be incredible; it took us four years to build it,” Huang told attendees, including TechRadar Pro“This project is truly a labor of love: we put several thousand years of engineering into it, we built a whole new revolutionary chip, a whole new line of PCs, it’s so beautiful you’ll love it.”
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Revealed in September 2026, the Surface Laptop Ultra is aimed at developer and AI use, powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform with an N1X processor and RTX Blackwell graphics, supporting up to 128GB of unified memory.
This is in addition to 24GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, while the next version has 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, making it ideal for creators, AI specialists, engineers, scientists, developers, and other users running demanding applications.
But as Huang says, creating the device, which is scheduled to launch on October 16, 2026, was a long and arduous process.
“It took four years to do this,” Huang said of the hardware development process. “We were thinking about agent systems, AI and autonomous systems, and how they will be able to access your files, draw on the information, reason about it and use tools, but the ultimate tool is your personal computer, right?”
“So wouldn’t it be great if we could create a personal computer, a PC that actually runs an agent locally, so that it can run and just work on things for you, and that could not only run locally, but be smart enough to use the tools?”
Huang explained his vision of “texting” your PC for help, having it perform tasks like rendering images and updating slides, and then delivering them directly to you.
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could send text messages to your computer? You don’t have to bring it with you anymore, just leave it on your desk!”
“So we created this; it took us four years to do it, so I called Satya (Nadella, CEO of Microsoft), and the two of us talked about it… so we had to create a completely new chip, we had to wait until Blackwell was finished, and this has 1 petaflops of compute, and because we knew the models were going to be big, we had to redesign how the GPU uses memory, so this is the first Nvidia GPU with shared memory, one petaflops, Blackwell architecture. – and It also has to run everything a PC can’t do.”
“There are three types of PCs, right,” Huang noted, “there’s the PC that you basically use for writing; it’s called a PC, there’s the Nvidia gaming PC, you have GeForce, and you have Nvidia workstations that run all kinds of applications… so we thought that if you’re going to have an AI to use the tools, it should be able to use every tool… run everything, run all the AI frameworks, run any AI Model as well.”
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