In his keynote address at COMPUTEX 2026 today (June 2nd), Arm CEO Rene Haas not only continued the vision for the AGI CPU he unveiled in late March of this year, focusing on Agentic AI, but also further outlined Arm's ambitious plans for the personal computer market. This echoes the current industry trend of actively integrating models like Gemini into consumer hardware.
A dual approach of AGI CPU and Arm CSS for PC
Rene Haas began by reviewing a major breakthrough Arm announced in late March of this year—the AGI CPU, tailored for the needs of proxy AI. Proxy AI requires end devices to possess extremely high levels of autonomous judgment and continuous computing power, which is precisely the bottleneck of traditional architectures. To address this issue, Rene Haas revealed on stage that Arm will continue to develop more Arm architecture CPU products optimized for the PC market through the "Arm CSS for PC" solution.
This means that in chip design, partners can bring customized chips to the consumer hardware market with lower barriers to entry and faster speed. It also suggests that future AI PCs will be able to achieve a more flexible balance between power consumption and high performance, completely changing the underlying computing logic of traditional PCs.
Jensen Huang makes a surprise appearance on stage: RTX Spark unleashes the potential of edge devices.
The highlight of the entire presentation was undoubtedly the surprise appearance of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The two heavyweights shared the stage and explained to the industry the deep collaboration between Arm and NVIDIA on the RTX Spark platform.
This collaboration enables Arm architecture CPUs to work more seamlessly and efficiently with NVIDIA's RTX GPUs, further unlocking the potential of edge AI computing and advanced image upscaling technologies such as DLSS. For gamers and professionals who are concerned about the development of gaming hardware, the emergence of RTX Spark will bring more groundbreaking architectural options to future PC gaming hardware, while also providing creators who require massive graphics processing power with more energy-efficient solutions.
Microsoft Surface RT: A Witness to History
Beyond the serious discussion of technical architecture, the speech concluded with a heartwarming and historically significant moment. In addition to using a humorous, entirely AI-generated video to illustrate the upcoming era of proxy AI, Rene Haas also prepared a unique gift—a Microsoft Surface RT device, the first Windows RT device, personally signed by him, which he presented to Jensen Huang in person.
This device, created in 2012, not only witnessed the early pioneering years when the two worked together to bring the Arm architecture into the Windows system. Although the Surface RT faced many challenges in the market due to the limitations of the software ecosystem at the time, this gift is not only proof of their deep friendship and revolutionary camaraderie, but also symbolizes that after more than a decade of dormancy and technological iteration, Arm and NVIDIA have finally ushered in a true architectural explosion in the PC field in 2026.
