Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm have dropped all pretense of subtlety. All three companies posted identical “A new era of PC” messages on X, complete with coordinates pointing to Taipei, where Computex 2026 kicks off this weekend. The not-so-secret secret: Nvidia is about to unveil its own Arm-powered laptop processors.
The chips, reportedly called N1 and N1X, represent Nvidia’s first serious push into the laptop CPU market.
What we know about the N1X
Nvidia’s Computex keynote is scheduled for June 1 at 11 AM local time in Taipei. That’s where the company is expected to formally announce the N1 and N1X processors, which are designed for Windows-on-Arm laptops.
The specs, based on leaks and industry reporting, are substantial. The N1X reportedly features a custom 20-core Arm v9 CPU paired with a Blackwell-architecture GPU packing approximately 6,144 CUDA cores. For context, that CUDA core count puts it in the neighborhood of RTX 5070-class graphics performance, which is a significant leap for a chip designed to sit inside a laptop.
