'I think it's a good thing': Intel seemingly 'welcomes the competition' from Nvidia RTX Spark CPU — but I doubt that's the case behind closed doors

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  • An Intel exec has said that Nvidia's new CPU is 'a good thing'
  • Team Blue apparently welcomes the competition and it 'shows the importance of how critical the PC is'
  • There are surely some worried faces at Intel behind the scenes, though, as to how the RTX Spark could drive the wider success of Arm-based laptops

Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, freshly revealed at Computex 2026, has been causing quite some waves, but Intel isn't worried about this new challenger in the CPU market apparently — at least not on the face of it.

The Economic Times reports that Intel's Alex Katouzian, general manager of the client computing and physical AI group, said of the new Arm-based Nvidia CPU: "If you take a look at what they brought to market (Monday), I think it's a good thing."

Katouzian then added: "It shows the importance of how critical...

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