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Something to look forward to. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly said that fans should wait a year for news on the company's AI PC plans. Almost precisely one year later, new rumors indicate that the business is set to showcase its long-rumored Arm consumer CPU later this month at Computex 2025.
According to ComputerBase and Heise, Nvidia and MediaTek are anticipated to release more cheap versions of the AI PC they showed off at CES last January. These initiatives may signal the long-awaited extension of Microsoft's Arm aspirations beyond Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
In a recent conference call, MediaTek announced that it will offer a Computex 2025 keynote on May 20 at 11 p.m. ET, exactly 24 hours after Nvidia's keynote at the show. According to media sources from Asia, MediaTek has obtained significant FCBGA packaging capacity, implying that the two firms are planning to launch PCs with soldered chips.
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Two gadgets, apparently dubbed the N1 and N1X, are planned. These machines, which use Arm-based MediaTek CPUs and Nvidia GPUs, are believed to be more cheap, scaled-down Windows versions of the GB10 Linux workstation, which was launched in January.
This would further Microsoft's attempts to provide Windows devices with Arm CPUs, which began last year with a range of laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X SoCs. Arm has previously said that other suppliers will ultimately release rival Arm processors for Windows PCs.
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On Macs and other devices, the Arm instruction set is more energy efficient than x86. However, after decades as the PC standard, x86 has amassed a large software library, which Arm developers must either port or maintain via compatibility layers.
Rumors of Nvidia's Arm AI PC plans first circulated in late 2023. The next year, the chiefs of Nvidia and Dell recommended the public to remain tuned for future updates. Later sources stated that Nvidia intends to launch a consumer product in late 2025, followed by an enterprise version in March 2026.
At this year's CES, Nvidia and MediaTek revealed Project Digits, a $3,000 tiny PC built for testing AI workloads without the need of cloud servers. The mini PC packs a MediaTek 20-core GB10 CPU, 128GB of RAM, a 1 PetaFLOP Nvidia Blackwell GPU, and a 4TB SSD into a 1.1-liter (150 x 150 x 50.5mm) chassis.
Consumer models of this are anticipated to include 8 to 16 cores and 16 to 32GB of RAM, while cost is unknown. Nvidia, MediaTek, and other businesses embracing the Arm Windows movement may try to create a Windows similar to Apple's popular M4 Mac Mini.
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