Recently, data miners have spotted what looks like a Lenovo laptop with NVIDIA SoC (system-on-a-chip), bearing the name ‘N1x’. This would be the first ever processor NVIDIA has designed for a full-fledge Windows PC, and MediaTek is assisting in its chipmaking efforts.
NVIDIA N1x: SoC For Laptops?
Some context: NVIDIA has designed CPUs before (the Tegra series), though it only powered devices like Android tablets in the early 2010s and the Nintendo Switch, making its presence in the CPU market very limited. Many years on, Windows on Arm has finally become a reality, and NVIDIA intends to enter the PC market this way with the help of another major Arm chipmaker, MediaTek. It’s worth noting that Team Green already has made CPUs in recent years (Grace), though those are solely focused on datacenter applications.
Another source has further elaborated on this discovery, stating that NVIDIA will be releasing the new N1x SoC as early as Q4 2025, with the lower-end N1 chip to follow in early 2026; shipment targets are reported as 3 million chips for the N1x and 13 million for the N1. NVIDIA is also expected to reveal the new chips officially at Computex 2025, which will be held on May this year.
That being said, NVIDIA won’t be directly competing against Intel and AMD as these two long-standing CPU chipmakers have stuck to the x86 architecture for several decades, and it’s not changing anytime soon. Instead, Qualcomm – another relatively new entrant in the laptop chipmaking space – will be the primary target of NVIDIA’s new SoCs; though it remains to be seen if both Arm-based offerings will be enough to challenge x86’s dominance in the laptop market.
Pokdepinion: That’s one to watch this year.
