N1x: NVIDIA’s SoC for laptops approaching!

For a while now, rumors have been growing about the arrival of NVIDIA on the Arm SoC market for PC computers, following progress around Windows on Arm and the arrival in 2024 of Qualcomm on this market. During CES 2025, NVIDIA also presented its Project Digits, which is certainly intended for the professional world, but Jensen Huang did not fail to specify that it will subsequently be available in a version for the general public.

Today, we are more specifically interested in the idea of ​​a SoC intended for laptops and which would therefore enter into direct competition with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon NVIDIA since the number 1 laptop manufacturer in the world, Lenovohas leaked some rather juicy information on its website.

It begins with a job offer, since removed from the site following, undoubtedly, the little buzz that it triggered since this morning of January 13, 2025. The offer was posted directly on the official Lenovo website, in its section of job proposals. The manufacturer announced that it was looking for an engineer in China to work on the design and development around the integration of the new SoC “NV N1x“, where we clearly understand that “NV” designates NVIDIA.

That’s not all since, once the name “N1x” has been made public, you can do a simple Google search again to discover another page that talks about it on the Lenovo site. This is however blocked from access by a password, but Google keeps some data in description to which we should not have access. The name “NVIDIA” is therefore clearly written in full this time for those who have the slightest doubt that still remains.

Following this discovery, a first rumor appeared concerning this chip, to be taken with a pinch of salt of course. NVIDIA would therefore be in partnership with MediaTek for this launch, which would be planned during Computex in June 2025. Two SoCs would be planned: the N1x for the high-end and the N1 for the mid-range. Production would be estimated at 3 million chips in the 4th quarter of 2025, which would therefore mean a launch to be expected at the very end of the year. An additional 13 million units would be considered in 2026. Based on architecture Blackwellthese SoCs would obviously be geared towards AI, with AI computing power which would be of the order of 180 to 200 TOPS. (Source: @AhnPhuH)