HP Japan Announces OmniBook Ultra 16 AI PC, Orders Open October 29
HP is pushing a 16-inch notebook past the usual 32GB ceiling to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of on-device AI performance, which puts local model execution rather than cloud offload at the center of the machine at a yen price that starts near 600,000.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
HP Japan announced the HP OmniBook Ultra 16 AI PC on October 15. The 16-inch notebook runs NVIDIA RTX Spark and offers up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. Three launch models are listed: an Extreme Plus with 64GB memory and a 1TB SSD, an Extreme with 32GB and a 1TB SSD, and an Extreme Pro with 128GB and a 2TB SSD. Orders open October 29, with prices starting at 596,200 yen, or 796,400 yen for the Extreme Plus.
The chassis is the part HP is selling hardest. A tower hinge and trunk architecture pair a large heat pipe with two ultra-thin fans, which is how the company fits 128GB configurations and sustained AI work into a thin body. The 16-inch 3K OLED carries VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1000 certification, and four speakers sit alongside it.
HP lists a 99Wh battery with up to 17 hours of life and fast charging to 50% in roughly 30 minutes. The machine is aimed at developers, creators, entrepreneurs, and gamers, and HP describes it as running on-device AI and cloud AI together.
- Extreme Plus: 64GB memory and a 1TB SSD; orders open October 29 from 796,400 yen
- Extreme: 32GB memory and a 1TB SSD
- Extreme Pro: 128GB memory and a 2TB SSD
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