Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with its own laptop chips – The Times of India

Nvidia is gearing up to put its own chips inside consumer laptops for the first time in years—and it’s not messing around. At least eight Arm-based laptops from Lenovo, Dell, and Alienware are in the pipeline, with the first machines expected to hit shelves as early as this spring.The move marks Nvidia’s boldest play yet to challenge the long-standing Intel-AMD duopoly in the Windows PC market. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company’s new N1 and N1X processors are system-on-a-chip designs that pack a CPU and Nvidia’s famous GPU muscle onto a single piece of silicon—the same approach that’s made smartphones efficient and MacBooks hard to beat on battery life.

Lenovo’s leaked lineup hints at Nvidia’s big laptop ambitions

A leak from dataminer Huang514613 spilled the beans on six Lenovo laptops built around the N1 and N1X chips. The lineup includes 14 and 16-inch Ideapad Slim 5 models, two Yoga Pro 7 variants, a Yoga 9 2-in-1, and—the real eyebrow-raiser—a 15-inch Legion 7 gaming laptop running the N1X. Lenovo’s own Legion Space software update page still carries traces of the gaming…