NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Arm jointly posted the same message on X at 10:00 a.m. Beijing time on May 30: “A new era of PC. 25.0528, 121.5990” — coordinates pointing to the Taipei Music Center. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a GTC Taipei keynote speech there at 11:00 a.m. (Taipei time) on June 1, during which the N1 and N1X notebook processors are expected to be officially unveiled. According to sources and leaked information cited by Tom’s Hardware, tbreak, and other media outlets, the N1X is a high-end model equipped with a 20-core Arm-based CPU and a Blackwell architecture-based integrated GPU (containing 6,144 CUDA cores), delivering performance roughly equivalent to the discrete RTX 5070 graphics card, supporting up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, and achieving around 180–200 TOPS of AI performance. Huang previously confirmed to Taiwanese media that the chip offers “low power consumption but excellent performance.” ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, and Microsoft Surface have all been confirmed or hinted at for the first wave of devices, with MSI also reportedly preparing related models. Some products are expected to launch before the 2026 holiday season.
The N1X has been repeatedly rumored for release since last year’s Computex but has been postponed multiple times, with external reports suggesting it faced mass production hurdles. This coordinated teaser by the three parties is interpreted as the strongest signal yet that an official launch is imminent. If NVIDIA successfully enters the notebook SoC market, it will directly challenge Qualcomm’s dominance in Windows on Arm, and some analysts see it as a potential variable that could shake up the x86 notebook market格局 that Intel and AMD have held for four decades. NVIDIA and MediaTek’s collaboration on the GB10 chip provides the hardware foundation to extend from the DGX Spark desktop AI workstation to thin and light laptops, while deep integration with Microsoft means full Windows ecosystem support — a step beyond the DGX Spark’s previous limitation of only supporting Linux.