Their joint effort could disrupt a market currently dominated by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X, Troubled Chipzilla’s Core Ultra and AMD’s Ryzen AI chips. 

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and MediaTek’s Rick Tsai will deliver keynotes on 19 and 20 May in which Heise Online claims will be used to announce the N1 and N1X.

MediaTek is building the CPU using Arm cores. Nvidia will slot in a Blackwell-based GPU. The pair will be built for the GB10 platform. One variant could include 20 cores, split between 10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725 cores. The spec targets high-performance AI PCs.

Windows-on-Arm laptops have relied entirely on Qualcomm. Nvidia’s better driver support gives it an edge over Qualcomm’s flakey Adreno graphics.

MediaTek is expected to offer a cut-down version with a smaller Nvidia GPU. This could bring Arm laptops to cheaper price points and hit AMD and Chipzilla where it hurts.

Digitimes reports MediaTek locked in a massive FCBGA packaging deal. The chip will integrate CPU and GPU in a single unit before fitting into notebooks. That order was placed late last year. It is unclear whether delays were already baked in.

SemiAccurate says production issues may push hardware launches into 2026. The silicon might show up at Computex, but actual kit will take longer. This could be the start of a serious Arm push into Windows PCs. But unless Nvidia and MediaTek fix their issues, buyers will be waiting a while.