Leaked Roadmap Reveals NVIDIA's ARM Laptop Chip Plans
The road-map says that the company will produce N1 and N1X ARM-based chips for laptops. Through the leak, the details of a multi-year plan for NVIDIA's foray into laptop processors have surfaced.
According to the leak from the timeline, the new set of platforms will be rolled out in stages:
- NVIDIA N1X (Consumer Market): Certification of laptops powered by the N1X chip and running the ARM version of Windows will take place in Q1 2026, while sales will start in Q2 2026.
- NVIDIA N2 and N2X: Higher-performing platforms based on N2 and N2X chips should be expected to launch in Q3 2027.
Tech Specs Leaked
The release of the first NVIDIA laptop is estimated to take place on a 3nm processor node. Some specifications known so far are:
- CPU Performance: The CPU performance is said to replicate performance almost entirely of the 20-core GB10 chip in the DGX Spark desktop system.
- GPU Architecture: The SoC integrates 6,144 CUDA cores built upon Blackwell architecture, the same core count as that of the GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card.
Market Placement and AI Positioning
These new platforms are being marketed by NVIDIA as high-performance computing machines, specifically meant for AI workloads. Pricing and more specifications for the laptops these chips go into are, at this time, unknown.
