DGX Spark Windows Clue: This Week's Firmware Adds a Windows Boot Certificate as NVIDIA Details October RTX Spark PCs
NVIDIA's latest firmware update for DGX Spark clusters includes a Windows UEFI certificate, signaling that the devices will soon support booting Windows. This update follows NVIDIA's broader push to integrate Windows into their local AI development ecosystem.
Why it matters
The addition of Windows support for high-end AI hardware significantly lowers the barrier to entry for developers working with local AI models.
NVIDIA used IFA in Berlin to put Windows at the center of its local AI story. The company’s September 3 post covers a new Windows Agent framework for agents that run in the background under OS control, one-click Windows setups for OpenClaw and Nous Research’s Hermes Agent, a beta of an inference router called NVIDIA PAIR, a batch of new local models, and a firm October window for RTX Spark Windows PCs from Lenovo, Acer, and six other OEMs.
Something else happened this week that NVIDIA didn’t announce. After we applied the latest firmware update to a DGX Spark cluster in our lab this week, the fwupd device list picked up an entry we hadn’t seen on it before: Windows UEFI CA. That’s the Microsoft certificate a machine’s firmware uses to trust a Windows boot loader. Windows is almost here for Sparks, the #1 most requested feature for these devices.
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