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Nvidia's long-awaited Arm-based chip for PCs reportedly spotted running Geekbench very badly


The numbers looks horrible but it doesn't mean much, for now.

Qualcomm is already having a serious tilt at it with the Snapdragon X series of chips, while Apple has proven with its M-series hardware that the Arm instruction set can go toe-to-toe with any x86 CPU. It's thought one important driver for the Mediatek tie-in may be 5G cellular networking support which could be critical for the enterprise version of the new chip. It's all speculation for now, but the claim that N1X and N1 are on TSMC's N3 node suggest that the chip could use Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPU technology rather than the current Blackwell architecture.

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