By Zak Killian
Publication Date: 2026-01-31 14:30:00
When you think NVIDIA, you think “GPUs.” It’s easy to forget that NVIDIA’s been making system-on-a-chip products for nearly 20 years; the first Tegra SoC came out in early 2008. The company’s chips haven’t really found their way into mainstream laptops, but that’s about to change with the release of the N1/N1X processors.
Speaking to Taiwanese media at NVIDIA Taiwan’s year-end wrap-up party, Huang made a few remarks about the upcoming chips. It’s not much we haven’t heard, but he emphasized the power efficiency of the new parts, reportedly claiming that the chips will feature “low power consumption but excellent performance.” He also reaffirmed that the processors are produced in partnership with Mediatek; that firm designed the Arm-based CPU chiplet, while NVIDIA brings its GPU expertise to the chips.
As we’ve reported several times before, the N1/N1X appear to be based on the very same design as the “GB10 Superchip” featured in the DGX Spark micro-workstation. It’s actually not at all clear what the difference between the N1 and N1X is, nor how they differ (if at all) from the GB10. Our best guess is that the N1 will be a slightly detuned version, and it’s also quite possible that both chips will feature fewer CPU cores given the emphasis on gaming, which rarely benefits from more than a handful of CPU cores.
The GB10 Superchip itself features a 10+10 big.LITTLE CPU…
