It has been long known that NVIDIA has been working on a PC processor and MediaTek was elected to assist the GPU giant in designing the CPU side of things. Taiwanese outlet United Daily News (UDN) reported that the final product will show up in an Alienware gaming laptop later this year or early 2026.
NVIDIA-MediaTek APU Surfaces
The chip in question has been leaked by Moore’s Law Is Dead with images showing a rather big chip, which is said to consume somewhere between 80 to 120 watts. That figure would be similar to AMD’s Ryzen AI Max series APUs, which, at its maximum configuration, packs 16 CPU cores with 40 GPU compute units into a single chip. Similar design has been found in Apple’s M-series processors as well.
That said, UDN reported that the chip at 65W TDP is claimed to be capable of competing against a discrete GeForce RTX 4070 laptop with the GPU consuming 120W on its own; as such, this allows laptops to be further slimmed down and require less cooling overall. Of course, it’s also important to mention that the chip will run on Arm-based architecture, which is not compatible with the longstanding x86-based ecosystem in today’s PC gaming environment.
At present, Windows on Arm is off to a rough start especially in gaming segments, given that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X line of SoCs severely lacked performance in the graphics department, with game compatibility often being a hit-or-miss affair. It remains to be seen if NVIDIA’s introduction as a processor/SoC maker in the PC market will eventually change the status quo long dominated by two companies, Intel and AMD.
Pokdepinion: Interesting times ahead.
