'Welcome to the family' — Qualcomm says it's glad Nvidia is joining the Arm race with the RTX Spark
I’ve been spending time with Qualcomm at Computex 2026, and if, like me, you were wondering how the company — which once had the Windows on Arm market pretty much all to itself — will respond to Nvidia’s announcement of a rival Arm-based RTX Spark chip for Windows 11 laptops and desktop PCs, then I have good news.
Responding to a question about what Qualcomm would like to say to Nvidia regarding the RTX Spark, Kedar Kondap, SVP and GM of Compute and Gaming, gave a simple answer: “Welcome to the family.” Rather than identifying Nvidia’s upcoming Arm chip as a threat, it seems Qualcomm is viewing it as an opportunity that will expand Windows on Arm adoption.
“We advanced the ecosystem,” Kondap continued, pointing out how Qualcomm has worked with games and app developers to boost the amount of software that can work natively with Arm hardware,...
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