When NVIDIA’s First Consumer PC Chips Are Coming To Challenge AMD And Intel

Who makes CPUs? Well, you’ve got AMD, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, and Mediatek as the major players in consumer devices, with companies like Samsung, Broadcom, Google, Huawei, UNISOC, and Rockchip each making up smaller slices of the market (even if their portfolios are often much larger). NVIDIA’s there too, though; while everyone knows about NVIDIA’s GeForce gaming GPUs and dedicated AI chips, NVIDIA sells quite a few CPUs, too. Primarily, at this time, that’s through Nintendo’s handhelds—at least in terms of volume—but the company is clearly eyeing the laptop and desktop market as well with its upcoming N1/N1X processors.

If you’re desperate for an all-NVIDIA gaming machine, you likely won’t have long to wait. Digitimes reports that Windows devices running N1[X] processors are scheduled to launch this quarter, meaning no later than March. That’s a little surprising, if true, simply because we haven’t heard a peep about N1[X] out of anyone aside from an offhanded mention from Jensen Huang that N1X is based on the same silicon as the GB10 Superchip in the green team’s DGX Spark desktop AI workstation.

That means a 10+10 Arm CPU configuration and 48 Blackwell shader modules, resulting in 6144 CUDA cores—the very same setup as a GeForce RTX 5070. Of course, the integrated graphics on GB10 are nowhere near as fast in games as a GeForce RTX 5070, but that’s because they’re held back by a shared 256-bit LPDDR5X memory bus. This configuration can provide potent…