NVIDIA x MediaTek's next-gen N1X AI PC processor rumored for Computex 2025 reveal, 2026 release

NVIDIA and MediaTek will have their respective keynotes at Computex 2025, but rumors have persisted for a while now that we'll see a reveal of their collaborative project in codename NX1 and N1: new Arm-based AI PC processors.

2

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will take the stage with its Computex 2025 keynote on May 19 at 11am local time, with MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai hosting his keynote exactly 24 hours later. The companies are expected to unveil the new N1X and N1 chips, both with Arm-based CPU cores designed by MediaTek, and GPU cores provided by NVIDIA.

In fact, NVIDIA recently unveiled its new GB10 chip for mini AI workstations, with both the N1X and N10 chips expected to be similar to the GB10, but slimmed-down on the CPU side of things. We've been hearing about the NVIDIA x MediaTek AI PC processor for a while now, with issues with the chip even reported causing delays, but it looks like we could have a Computex 2025 unveiling, with a launch in 2026 (most likely at CES 2026 in January).

NVIDIA's new GB10 chip has 20 cores of Arm processing power, but the new N1X and N1 processors are expected to have between 8 and 12 cores, with RAM between 16GB and 32GB depending on the SKU. MediaTek and NVIDIA will be competing directly against the likes of Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X range of Arm-based AI PC processors running Windows on Arm, but the GPU side of these laptops is nowhere near close to that of a GeForce GPU.

This is where NVIDIA's GPU prowess comes into play, but the Arm CPU side of things will always have people worried -- running emulated version of your x86-based software and games is never fun, performance sucks for the most part -- but if NVIDIA and MediaTek can squeeze more performance out of the N1X and N1 chips running Windows on Arm, then color me interested when it launches.