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A date to look forward to : Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang hinted once that observers should wait a full year for updates about the company’s AI PC aspirations. New reports suggest that the company will unveil its long-rumored Arm CPU at Computex 2020, almost exactly one year after it was first announced.
Nvidia, MediaTek and Intel are expected to release more affordable versions of the AI PCs they displayed at CES in January. ComputerBase Heise. These announcements may mark the long-awaited expansion beyond Qualcomm Snapdragon chips of Microsoft’s Arm ambitions.
During a recent conference, MediaTek confirmed that it will deliver its Computex 2025 Keynote on May 20, at 11pm ET. This is exactly 24 hours after Nvidia delivered its keynote at the same event. Media reports from Asia indicate MediaTek has recently secured significant FCBGA packaging capability, suggesting that the two companies are preparing for PCs with soldered CPUs.
Two devices, reportedly called the N1 and N1X, are planned. Featuring Arm-based MediaTek CPUs and Nvidia GPUs, these models will likely be more affordable, scaled-down Windows-based versions of the GB10 Linux workstation announced in January.
This would advance Microsoft’s efforts to offer Windows devices running Arm chips, which began last year with a lineup of laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X SoCs. Arm has previously confirmed that other vendors would eventually introduce competing Arm chips for Windows PCs.
The Arm instruction set on Macs and other devices has shown greater energy efficiency than the x86. x86, which has been the PC standard for decades, has built up a large software library, which Arm developers will have to either port or support via compatibility layers.
Rumors of Nvidia’s AI PC ambitions based on Arm began to circulate in late 2023. The heads of Nvidia, Dell and others told the public in the following year to stay tuned for further information. Later reports indicated that Nvidia planned to release a consumer product in late 2025 followed by an enterprise-oriented version in March 2026.
Nvidia and MediaTek announced Project Digits at this year’s CES. The $3,000 mini-PC is designed to test AI workloads without relying upon cloud servers. The mini PC features a MediaTek 20 core GB10 CPU with 128GB RAM, a Nvidia Blackwell GPU with 1 PetaFLOP, and a 4TB solid state drive in a compact 1.1 liter enclosure (150 x150 x 50.5mm). Consumer variants will likely have 8 to 16 cores and 16 to 32GB RAM. Pricing is still to be determined. Nvidia MediaTek and other companies that are joining the Arm Windows initiative may aim to create a Windows equivalent of Apple’s highly regarded M4 Mac Mini.
