{"id":680464,"date":"2026-06-02T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680464\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:21:19","slug":"microsoft-created-the-mini-surface-dev-box-that-qualcomm-couldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680464\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Microsoft only just announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/940584\/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-nvidia-rtx-spark-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Surface Laptop Ultra<\/a> at the weekend, and it\u2019s now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia\u2019s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks a little like the top of an Xbox Series X console, with an aluminum chassis that also doubles as a heatsink. It has a 100-watt thermal envelope, slightly more than the 45-watt-to-80-watt thermal envelopes for Nvidia\u2019s RTX Spark laptops. This miniature Surface PC also has 128GB of unified memory, making it capable of running up to 120 billion parameter models locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Microsoft is preconfiguring the RTX Spark Dev Box with apps like Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and other tools. \u201cSurface RTX Spark Dev Box ships with Windows 11 Pro pre-configured for developers at the image level,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r01\/___https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/devices\/?p=263819___.YzJ1OndlY29tbXVuaWNhdGlvbnM6YzpvZmZpY2UzNjVfZW1haWxzX2F0dGFjaG1lbnQ6YjY5MzA3NTc2MzQxYzQzN2JjNzA5ZTI5M2MxMDg0ZDA6Nzo0ZmZlOjFkZTdiOGU5OGViMzE2OGEwNGE0OTY4MmEwMjA5ZWUwNTA0Yjg5ZTQzMThkNTUzMTdmNzk5ZTg0OTVhY2QyYzE6cDpUOkY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explains Andrew Hill<\/a>, corporate vice president of Surface. \u201cThe setup keeps developers in their workflow: dark theme, taskbar simplified for development, Widgets removed, Do Not Disturb on. Developer Mode is enabled. PowerShell 7 is the default shell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The RTX Spark Dev Box joins similar options from other OEMs that are embracing Nvidia\u2019s new RTX Spark chips for miniature PCs. It\u2019s also a direct replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/18\/24273366\/qualcomm-cancels-snapdragon-dev-kit-mini-windows-on-arm-pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qualcomm\u2019s canceled Snapdragon Dev Kit<\/a>, the miniature Windows on Arm PC that was originally supposed to ship two years ago. The Dev Kit was supposed to help developers port their apps to Windows on Arm, but Qualcomm faced some complications with hardware quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">While we don\u2019t have full specifications or pricing, the RTX Spark Dev Box will be available later this year in the US from Microsoft\u2019s online store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it\u2019s now revealing a miniature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[182,1281,296409,3,172,74],"class_list":["post-680464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-build","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}