Microsoft debuts Nvidia-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, as it aims for AI market

Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled its Nvidia (NVDA)-powered Surface Laptop Ultra during an event in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday. Designed to compete with Apple's (AAPL) MacBook Pro laptops for AI, video workloads, and gaming, the $2,599 Laptop Ultra is Microsoft's most powerful Surface to date, thanks to its Arm (ARM)-based Nvidia RTX Spark processor. Microsoft executive vice president of Windows and devices Pavan Davuluri says the chip features up to a staggering 128GB of unified memory, giving it the ability to run demanding AI models other laptops can't. According to Tom Mainelli, IDC's group vice president of device and consumer research, the Surface Laptop Ultra will likely appeal to early adopters across both the consumer and enterprise spaces.