Nvidia and MediaTek could take advantage of Computex 2025 to unveil the PC SoC they jointly designed and announced last year. In quick succession, Nvidia and then Mediatek will be taking the floor at the opening of Computex. Nvidia will be holding its own keynote on the eve of the show. For his part, MediaTek’s CEO will deliver a keynote speech at Computex on May 20 at 11am local time in Taipei. At the heart of this speech, we expect to hear many details about the PC business and the ambitions of the collaboration between MediaTek and Nvidia.
An ARM SoC with PC and Laptop versions
For the moment, it has to be said that we don’t know much about this PC chip. It looks like we might have an N1X, the codename of the variant for desktop PCs, and an N1 for notebooks. On the other hand, it’s highly likely that this chip is a descendant of the GB10 SoC, a joint product of MediaTek and Nvidia found at the heart of the Nvidia DGX Spark mini-computer. The SoC combines a Blackwell graphics unit with a Grace Arm processor. In detail, the graphics part is equipped with 5th-generation Tensor cores and 4th-generation RT cores (like the RTX 50). The processor section features 20 Arm cores, including 10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725. In the case of consumer chips, rumors suggest a limited configuration of between 8 and 12 cores. The other source of savings is obviously the amount of ram available. From the 128GB available on the DGX Spark, the N1 and N1x could be reduced to 32GB.
These SoCs are designed to run Windows 11 (Windows on Arm), like the Snapdragon chips used by several manufacturers for Copilot PCs.
What remains unknown is the format that will be offered. Will Nvidia follow the example of its DGX Spark? Offer a complete system? A motherboard that can be “integrated” like a simple PC? That’s the whole point of this foray by Nvidia, which we’ll be following with great interest
