By Kyle Barr
Publication Date: 2026-02-04 21:10:00
With Nvidia’s graphics cards now unaffordable for all but the most-desperate gamers, the king of CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is still trying to make its first laptops work in 2026. Unfortunately, we may not see Nvidia’s processors for PCs until many months down the line. That could pose a problem for a company that seems to care more and more about AI, and AI only.
We’ve been witness to a legion of leaks all supporting the identity of Nvidia’s first CPUs, titled N1 and N1X. Over this past weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang finally confirmed it was making these chips during an interview with Taiwanese outlet UDN (read via machine translation). The black-jacketed head of what’s now the wealthiest company in the world said that Nvidia was working with chipmaker MediaTek on a brand new SoC (system on a chip). The N1 would be built for productivity machines, but the N1X could ostensibly bear the graphical juice for gaming on a mobile machine.
Nvidia’s N1 could miss most of the year
Previous leaks suggested the N1X may equal that of a modern RTX 5050 GPU at lower wattages. What’s less promising is just how long it could take to get there. Noted leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead published several videos this week to his YouTube channel where he claimed Nvidia could be delaying the launch of…