Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t
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AI dev environments are moving from the cloud console to the desk — Nvidia Arm-based RTX Spark in a tiny Surface box is a bet that local, sustained workloads become a standard part of the stack. If you're building tools or platforms, assume your users will have serious on-device inference and design for hybrid, not cloud-only.
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