'This computer is going to be incredible': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why the new Surface Laptop Ultra is "really a work of love"

Date:
Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:05:00 +0000

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It took four years to build, but Jensen Huang has high hopes for the Surface Laptop Ultra.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has
sung the praises of Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra , describing it as "so beautiful" and "incredible".

Speaking at a developer event in London, Huang outlined the development process that went into building the hardware powering the new product, which is the first Microsoft 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 really a work of love - we had several thousand engineering years dedicated to it, we build a brand new revolutionary chip, a whole new line of PCs, its so beautiful - youre going to love it. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here: The end of the traditional PC? Revealed in September 2026, the Surface Laptop Ultra
is targeted towards developer and AI usage, powered by Nvidias RTX Spark platform with an N1X processor and RTX Blackwell graphics, supporting up to 128GB unified memory

This is alongside 24GB RAM and 512GB storage, while the next version has 32GB RAM and 1TB storage, making it ideal for creators, AI specialists, engineers, scientists, developers, and other users running demanding applications. You may like Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark pre-orders are now live Microsoft teams with Nvidia to take on Apple MacBook Pro to win hearts and minds of the creative and AI market with new Surface Laptop Ultra Microsoft reveals new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices

But as Huang tells it, the creation of the device, set to launch on October
16 2026, was a long and arduous process. (Image credit: Microsoft) It took four years to do this," Huang said of the hardware development process. "We were thinking about agentic systems, AI and autonomous systems, and how
theyll be able to access your files, and be grounded on information, and be able to reason about it and use tools - but the ultimate tool is your
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"So wouldnt it be cool if we could create a personal computer, a PC that actually runs an agent locally - so it can go off and just work on things for you - and not only could it just run locally, it would be smart enough to use the tools."

Huang explained his vision of "texting" your PC to ask for help, to get it to do tasks like rendering images and updating slides, then delivering them straight to you.

"Wouldnt it be awesome if you could just text your computer - you dont have
to bring it with you anymore - just leave it at your desk!

So we created this thing - it took us four years to do it, so I called Satya (Nadella, Microsoft CEO), and the two of us talked about itand so we had to create a brand new chip, we had to wait until Blackwell was done - and this thing has 1 petaflops of computing, 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 also it has to run everything a PC doesnt.

Theres three types of PCs, right," Huang outlined, "theres the PC that basically you use to type in - thats called a PC, theres the Nvidia gaming
PC, youve got GeForce in that, and youve got the Nvidia workstations that
runs all kinds of applicationsso we figured that if youre going to have an AI go use the tools, it should be able to use every single toolit runs everything, it runs every AI framework, it runs any AI model as well." Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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