It’s what the industry giant calls “a new era for the PC.” While the laptop market remains largely dominated by x86 processors from Intel and AMD, and Qualcomm is trying to impose its solutions under ARM, Nvidia is preparing to throw a wrench in the pond.
According to official documents obtained by Videocardz, the chameleon firm is developing chips uniting ARM CPU cores (combining the very recent Cortex-X925 performance cores with Cortex-A725 efficiency cores) with the power of its graphics chips. Blackwell generation. Notable fact: one of these documents being dated 2024, the project has been brewing behind the scenes for a long time already, which leaves doubt about slight last minute adjustments concerning the characteristics or commercial names.
Integrations already confirmed at Dell and Lenovo
The leak reveals that product sheets were spotted ahead of the official announcement. Dell unwittingly spilled the beans via a media directory prepared for the show, confirming the arrival of an XPS laptop equipped with the high-end N1x chip. This proves that Nvidia is directly targeting the high-end consumer market and not just professional workstations.
At the same time, retailer listings have revealed full configurations of Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 models. A version equipped with the N1x 650 processor with 32 GB of memory and 1 TB of SSD storage was seen around €3,199, while the higher version N1x 675 with 64 GB of memory costs almost €4,049. A more affordable variant based around the standard N1 processor is also programmed under the Yoga Pro 7 references. These laptops will run under Windows 11, relying on Windows on Arm emulation for traditional, non-optimized applications.
The technical sheet of the N1x and N1 chips
At the top of the range, the N1x chip seems to share its architecture with the GB10 processor found at the heart of the brand’s DGX Spark professional system. In its most muscular version, this monster has up to 20 CPU cores and a GPU equipped with 48 SM, the equivalent of 6144 CUDA cores. therefore, than the desktop GeForce RTX 5070, less energy management since the overall thermal envelope (TDP including CPU and GPU) will oscillate here between 45W and 80W when a GeForce RTX 5070 of 250W Everything is supported by a unified memory of up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X and offers! the ability to manage up to three SSD drives in M.2 format.
More modest, the N1 processor aims for energy efficiency with a TDP of between 18W and 45W. Its maximum configuration offers 12 CPU cores, 20 SM (i.e. 2560 CUDA cores, a configuration similar to an RTX 5050) and up to 64 GB of memory. The entry-level version of the N1 chip goes down to 10 CPU cores and 16 SM (i.e. 2,048 CUDA cores). The overall connectivity of the N1 chip is based on 8 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 3 PCIe 4.0 lanes, with support for up to two M.2 drives.
All high-end N1x versions integrate cutting-edge connectivity combining 12 PCIe 5.0 lines and 5 PCIe 4.0 lines.
The wait to sort out fact from fiction will be very short. Nvidia should in fact officially lift the veil on the full characteristics of these N1 and N1x chips tomorrow, during its conference at Computex 2026.
