NVIDIA is reportedly on track to launch its Arm-Based PC processors in the next 24 months, with the first to arrive as early as next fall. It was back in May when a rumor began circulating that NVIDIA and MediaTek have been collaborating to develop an Arm-based PC processor and it looks like we may be getting closer to an official announcement regarding it. According to DigiTimes (via Tom’s Hardware), NVIDIA is reportedly on track to either announce or release, its consumer-grade products in September 2025 with commercial offerings sometime in 2026.
Per Tom’s Hardware:
- “It is unclear whether DigiTimes means that Nvidia is set to introduce two platforms: one for consumer computers in September 2025 and another for business and commercial PCs in March 2026, or that Nvidia will formally introduce its PC platform in September and then ship it in volume in March.”
This would not be NVIDIA’s first foray into non-GPU territory. Its Tegra processors have previously been used in Android devices along with the shortlived Windows on Arm platforms from 2011 which used the Windows RT OS, a scaled-down version of Windows that never gained traction. NVIDIA has since maintained a contract with Nintendo for its Switch console which uses an NVIDIA Tegra X1 processor, introduced in 2015, featuring Maxwell graphics paired with an ARM Cortex-A57 CPU. A similar processor is used in the NVIDIA Shield. To date, there are no details regarding possible specifications for a line of Arm-based CPUs co-designed by MediaTek and NVIDIA, but they are expected to compete against AMD, likely Intel as well, and potentially Apple. MediaTek currently has its Dimensity 9400 SoC processor which is found within flagship 5G phones offering impressive specs that could hint at things to come from this rumored partnership.
Dimensity 9400 Specifications (via product page):
- Processor: 1x Arm Cortex-X925, 2MB L2 cache, up to 3.63 GHz, 3x Arm Cortex-X4, 1MB L2 cache, 4x Arm Cortex-A720, 512KB L2 cache, 12MB L3 cache, 10MB SLC
- Cores: Octa (8)
- Memory Type: LPDDR5X
- Max Memory Frequency: 10667 Mbps
- Storage Type: UFS 4 + MCQ
- GPU Type: Arm Immortalis-G925 MC12
- Video: 8K60, 10-bit Video Decode (HEVC/AVC/VP9/AV1), 8K30, 10-bit Video Encode (HEVC/AVC), 8K60, 8-bit HEVC Encode
- AI Processing Unit: MediaTek NPU 890 (Generative AI, Agentic AI)