There seems to be a bit of confusion happening around NVIDIA’s supposedly upcoming N1 series chipset bound for PCs in late 2025 – in the Q&A session shortly after the announcement of Intel partnership, CEO Jensen Huang has confirmed that the N1 chip is, in fact, the very same chip as the GB10 found in the already-launched DGX Spark AI system.
NVIDIA N1 = GB10 Superchip
In response to questions of NVIDIA’s relationship with Arm-based chipmakers under this newly-announced partnership, Huang said (jump to 19:57): “We’re fully committed to the Arm roadmap […] We also have a new Arm product that’s called N1. And that product is – that processor is going to go into the DGX Spark and many other versions of products like that. And so we’re super excited about the Arm road map, and [the Intel partnership] doesn’t affect any of that.”
So what we’ve known about the GB10 Superchip is essentially what N1 is – and that means a 20-core (10C+10C) CPU designed by MediaTek, paired with NVIDIA’s GPU featuring 6,144 Blackwell CUDA cores good for 31 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, or 1 petaFLOPS of lower-precision NVFP4 compute for AI workloads. This is paired with up to 128GB of 256-bit LPDDR5X unified memory with around 301GB/s of raw bandwidth, and it operates at a 170W TDP, similar to a typical high-end desktop processor.
Despite Huang’s confirmation of N1’s existence, there is still no concrete launch date of this chip in consumer PC form. While DGX Spark-based systems are now available through NVIDIA and its partners, they command astronomical prices that are simply unreachable for most consumers in the home PC segment.
Pokdepinion: I guess the N1 was hidden in plain sight for all these time.
