After a lot of leaks, a whole lot of rumours, and me boring the crap out of Nvidia's PRs about it many times over the years, the N1X CPU, now incorporated in the RTX Spark SoC, has finally been unveiled. It's been one of the most well-known secrets in the industry—that Nvidia would one day release a laptop SoC, pairing a MediaTek Arm chiplet with an Nvidia GPU core, to create its own notebook platform and here we are.
With the full RTX Spark "superchip", codenamed the N1X, users can expect up to 20 Grace CPU cores and 6144 RTX Blackwell GPU cores, alongside up to 128 GB of unified LPDDR5x memory. And I think the 'up to' parts of that statement are doing a lot of heavy lifting here, because this isn't just a single laptop processor but a full lineup of notebook SoCs starting in the autumn of this year.
And that's welcome news, because in a RAMpocalypse world of ever-increasing hardware prices, a chip that's wedded to 128 GB of any kind of memory is going to be prohibitively expensive. But, while Mark Aevermann, consumer product marketing lead of RTX Spark, wouldn't be drawn on details of the different chips we might expect to see, he did note that "RTX Spark is going to be a ...
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