Nvidia is set to launch its first Arm-based laptop chips at Computex on Sunday, with unusually coordinated build-up across social media. The Windows, GeForce, and Arm accounts on X posted the same line, 'A new era of PC,' alongside coordinates 25.0528, 121.5990, which point to the Taipei venue where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage Sunday night.
Nvidia N1X and N1 Chips
The chip in question is the N1X, with a smaller N1 expected to sit below it. Neither name is new. Reports of Nvidia building Windows-capable Arm CPUs first surfaced in 2023 and have been circulating ever since.
Ending Qualcomm's Grip
What makes this more than another launch is that Qualcomm has effectively had Arm-based Windows 11 to itself. Nvidia steps in with Microsoft's blessing and full Copilot+ support, putting real pressure on both Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite and Apple's MacBook Neo.
Leaked Specs
The leaked spec sheet backs up the noise. The N1X is reportedly built on TSMC's 3nm node, with 20 cores split evenly between performance and efficiency, all custom Nvidia designs on Arm v9.2. There is said to be 32MB of shared cache feeding them.
Blackwell Graphics
The graphics are where it gets interesting. The integrated GPU uses Nvidia's Blackwell architecture and allegedly runs up to 48 streaming multiprocessors, or 6,144 CUDA cores. That is roughly RTX 5060 Ti territory, paired with LPDDR5X in a unified memory setup. Nvidia is reportedly gunning for Apple's M5 Pro and AMD's Ryzen AI Max 400.
OEM Partners
Dell and Lenovo have both been linked to N1X laptops, so machines should follow the silicon quickly. Asus also piled on, quote-posting Nvidia's teaser with a #ProArt tag, hinting that its creator line could be among the first to carry the chip. The specifics land with Huang on Sunday.
