Surface Laptop Ultra bets big on Nvidia Arm chip to rival the MacBook Pro
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra showcases Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm SoC with up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch PixelSense display up to 2000 nits, and a full set of I/O (USB-A, USB-C, HDMI, SD, audio) plus a large haptic trackpad. Positioned as a MacBook Pro–style high-end Windows laptop, it emphasizes powerful AI/creator workloads and Windows on Arm with Prism translation, featuring up to 20 Arm CPU cores and 6,144 GPU cores. It’s expected to ship later this year with no pricing disclosed.