Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15

Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.

Since rebranded as the DGX Spark, the roughly NUC-sized system pairs a Blackwell GPU capable of delivering up to a petaFLOP of sparse FP4 performance with 128 GB of unified system memory and 200 Gbps of high-speed networking.

But with a price starting around $3,000, small doesn't mean cheap. Then again, it's not exactly aimed at mainstream PC buyers. The systems, which will also be available under various brand names from OEM partners, won't even come with Windows. A Copilot+ PC this is not. Instead, it ships with a custom spin of Ubuntu Linux.

Spark is actually intended for AI and robotics developers, data scientists, and machine learning researchers ...