{"id":248885,"date":"2026-01-24T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:49:07","slug":"leak-nvidia-is-about-to-challenge-intel-inside-with-as-many-as-eight-arm-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248885\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge \u2018Intel Inside\u2019 with as many as eight Arm laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It\u2019s not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops<\/a> running Windows, and \u2014 as soon as this spring \u2014 Nvidia will finally power Windows consumer laptops with Arm chips all by itself.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t have an Nvidia graphics chip next to an Intel CPU, but rather an Nvidia N1 system-on-chip at the helm \u2014 and overnight, a Lenovo leak revealed that the company has built six laptops on the upcoming N1 and N1X processors, including a 15-inch gaming machine.<\/p>\n

Dataminer Huang514613 posted the product names to X, which also include 14 and 16-inch models of the Ideapad Slim 5, two variants of the 15-inch Yoga Pro 7, and a Yoga 9 transforming 2-in-1.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to take Huang\u2019s word for it alone: this update page<\/a> for the company\u2019s Legion Space control software still shows the existence of a \u201cLegion 7 15N1X11\u201d gaming laptop, where the \u201cN1X\u201d refers to Nvidia\u2019s gaming SoC.<\/p>\n

And just by using Google, I found a publicly indexed web portal where Lenovo has listings for password-protected \u201cNvidia N1x Portal Prod\u201d and Nvidia N1x Portal Test\u201d websites, too:<\/p>\n

Three days ago, Digitimes reported<\/a> that we should expect Nvidia to launch its N1 and N1X laptop platform this spring, with more devices available this summer, after a previous delay<\/a> \u2014 and that the company already has N2 and N2X chips on the roadmap for late 2027.<\/p>\n

While we don\u2019t truly know how much power the N1 and N1X have, a Geekbench leak<\/a> (which has to be taken with a grain of salt; fake specs have been planted there before) suggested the N1X variant may have as many CUDA cores as a desktop RTX 5070 graphics card and 20 CPU cores, like Nvidia\u2019s GB10 \u201cSuperchip\u201d in the DGX Spark<\/a> mini-PC. I\u2019m comfortable sharing that because Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has all but confirmed the N1 and GB10<\/a> are two halves of the same coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3447,111,139,69,8135,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-248885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-pc-gaming","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}