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Acer and Asus Resume PC Sales in Germany After Nokia Settlement

Acer and Asus have reached a settlement with Nokia in a patent dispute and are again allowed to sell PCs and notebooks in Germany. The agreement, reached with the help of a private arbitration panel, follows a court-ordered sales ban by the Munich I regional court in mid-February 2026. The dispute centered on patent EP2661892, covering the H.265/HEVC video standard; Nokia and the manufacturers disagreed over how licence fees should be calculated. Neither the settlement terms nor future royalty levels were disclosed. Both vendors say they have resumed distribution and marketing in Germany and their German online shops list devices for immediate order and delivery.

NVIDIA RTX Spark: 128GB Unified CPU–GPU Memory

NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark "superchip" around Computex/Build 2026. RTX Spark pairs a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU connected via NVLink‑C2C into a single 128GB coherent memory pool, removing host↔device PCIe copies for zero‑copy CPU–GPU access. The Blackwell GPU is described with 6,144 CUDA cores and fifth‑generation FP4 Tensor Cores, and NVIDIA cites up to 1 petaflop of low‑precision (FP4) peak AI compute. Consumer NVLink‑C2C bandwidth is undisclosed. NVIDIA positions RTX Spark for on‑device AI agents and large context models; laptops and compact desktops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI are expected to ship RTX Spark systems in fall 2026. The release highlights reduced PCIe transfer overhead rather than eliminating memory bandwidth limits entirely.

Nvidia launches RTX Spark AI chip for Windows PCs

Nvidia announced the RTX Spark, a System-on-Chip (SoC) for Windows devices unveiled at Computex. RTX Spark combines CPU and GPU on a single chip, with Nvidia claiming GPU performance roughly equivalent to an RTX 5070 while using less power. The SoC supports shared unified memory with configurations up to 128 GB and includes about a petaflop of AI compute — which Nvidia says is sufficient to run 120-billion-parameter models locally. Microsoft showcased a Copilot‑Plus device, the Surface Laptop Ultra, alongside the chip. Nvidia expects RTX Spark and Surface Laptop Ultra to ship in Fall 2026; it and partners are reportedly working on 30+ laptops and 10 desktops from OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HPT, MSI and Lenovo.