By Tobias Mann
Publication Date: 2026-02-23 19:59:00
Your next laptop may have Nvidia inside – not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel’s marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple’s MacBook line.
Last fall, major OEMs including Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, MSI and Gigabyte began shipping Linux workstations powered by a custom Nvidia processor rather than the usual fare of Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm chips. The question since then has been when will we see the chip or something like it in a machine that doesn’t cost $3,000-$4,000 and, critically, can actually run Windows.
According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal citing sources familiar with the matter, we may not have to wait much longer for a consumer-focused system on chip (SoC) from Nvidia, with Dell and Lenovo reportedly planning systems, including notebooks, for later this year.
Nvidia’s MediaTek fusion
Nvidia’s GB10 SoC launched in October as part of a collaboration between MediaTek and Nvidia. The first systems were AI workstations from Nvidia, Dell, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and others. The chip features a CPU tile designed by MediaTek which features a “big/little” architecture with 10 Arm X925 cores and 10 A725 for a total of 20. So, the CPU itself is not made by Nvidia.
In testing, we found that the chip delivered CPU performance within 10 to 15 percent of AMD’s top-specced Strix Halo mobile processors in most workloads.
