Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops make no sense — until they do
THE SO WHAT
Nvidia moving into laptop CPUs with RTX Spark is a verticalization play—own the whole AI client stack from silicon to software. If you ship desktop apps or edge workloads, assume the “AI PC” will be a real deployment target and start testing on these platforms before your users do.
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