Nvidia seems to have just confirmed upcoming Arm and Blackwell laptop chips based on its new GB10 processor in collaboration with MediaTek

Nvidia Project Digits supercomputer on a desk showing words and graphics and code on a screen with keyboard and mouse

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With all the RTX 50-series chatter coming out of CES 2025, it might be easy to forget that we've been hoping for Nvidia to announce something else this year: namely, an all-Nvidia Arm laptop chip. On that front, it seems we now finally have confirmation that such a thing is in the works and seemingly just around the corner.

According to HardwareLuxx, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed during a Q&A that Nvidia is working with MediaTek to create an end-user system on a chip (SoC) based on the just-announced Project Digits mini home-user AI supercomputer. An "end-user system" would presumably mean a mobile chip that could be used in a laptop.

The GB10, Nvidia says, is the "world’s Smallest AI Supercomputer Capable of Running 200B-Parameter Models". It's primarily for students, researchers, and hobbyists to try out powerful local AI that kind of replicates cloud-based AI, and all this runs on a Linux-based DGX operating system.

The idea that Nvidia might make an end-user SoC with Arm CPU cores in collaboration with MediaTek isn't new. In fact, it's one of the things we've been excited about potentially seeing in 2025, as it could mean getting our hands on an all-Nvidia laptop. We'd heard rumours of such chips going into production in 2025 since at least November last year, and we'd even heard talk of the first such SoC having RTX 4070 mobile and Strix Halo-level performance.

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