Nvidia’s mythical Arm gaming laptop may finally arrive in partnership with Alienware

Still Waiting: Once, Nvidia set about revolutionizing the PC industry with a gaming machine powered by a GeForce GPU and an Arm-based processor. Years later, the revolution is still not here – most games are still dependent on x86 processors and require a graphics card to perform at their best. United Daily News, a Taiwanese publication, recently reported on new rumors about Nvidia’s AI PC. The AI PC is reportedly being developed to shake up gaming. Unnamed industry sources claim that the GPU giant is working together with Dell’s Alienware on a new gaming notebook powered by a custom APU. This APU will reportedly be powerful enough to alarm Intel AMD and other players in emerging Arm PC space.

According to unnamed industry insiders, the APU will feature a MediaTek-designed custom CPU component and a GPU that is based on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture. Alienware Arm is expected to be released in the fourth quarter 2025 or early 2026. The chip’s power envelope was revealed in earlier rumors, and it ranged between 80W to 120W.

Despite its reduced power consumption, the rumored APU should deliver performance comparable to that of the notebook variants of the GeForce RTX 4470. Taiwanese sources describe the new chip as an industry breakthrough – a unified solution that could disrupt the traditional model of separate GPU and CPU components in portable systems.

Arm processors have traditionally been viewed as being significantly more energy efficient than x86 CPUs. Microsoft and Qualcomm have attempted to leverage this advantage by their Snapdragon X Elite and Pro processors, but only a small portion of customers have adopted these systems.

Qualcomm is committed to investing in PCs despite the challenging market conditions. The company is working on the Snapdragon Elite 2 processor which could power liquid-cooled gaming PCs in the near future.

Rumors of Nvidia entering the PC gaming market started circulating in 2023. Jensen Huang, the CEO of the company, confirmed “plans” that it has a desktop CPU based on Arm. Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell, added fuel to speculation in 2024 by suggesting that more details about the project could emerge in 2025.