The Hot Take: You will get mid-range only and love it.... Probably all while renting it I assume.
Nvidia wants a slice of every laptop sold, not just the ones with a chunky discrete GPU.
The firm is lining up “exclusive” laptop system-on-chips for consumers this year, barging into a market long owned by Intel and AMD while trying to cash in on the AI PC hype.
The pitch is that Nvidia has ignored the huge integrated CPU-and-GPU segment, even though it ships bucketloads of graphics chips for gaming and workstations.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said: “There’s 150 million laptops sold per year, and Nvidia’s market largely targets gaming and workstation markets where discrete GPUs are used. And we’re very successful there. There’s an entire segment of the market where the CPU and the GPU are integrated. And that segment has been largely unaddressed by Nvidia today.”
He said that entire segment of the market is quite rich, large, and underserved today, with state-of-the-art, world-class GPUs like Nvidia’s.
The big idea leans hard on on-device AI, with CPU vendors repackaging product lines around NPUs such as Intel’s NPU and AMD XDNA, and Nvidia fancies itself as the obvious third wheel.
It is pushing the envelope by pairing silicon with software, dropping its open-source model stack, Nemotron, alongside laptop SoCs to ride the edge AI frenzy.
If Nvidia stuffs enough consumer machines with its own silicon, it can bake “on-device AI” features in as defaults and grab a bigger cut of whatever edge AI turns into.
This would give Nvidia an edge that Intel and AMD “cannot achieve”, because they are not building foundation models, they are just selling the compute.
If edge AI really does hit the predicted $160 billion valuation by 2030, then Nvidia could be on to something.
On the silicon side, the rumour mill says Nvidia is building ARM-based laptop chips with MediaTek, following the shape of its GB10 SuperChip used in the DGX Spark mini-AI supercomputer.
The Nvidia and MediaTek pairing is not new, since they have already collaborated in automotive via the “Dimensity Auto” line with RTX GPU IP bolted in.
Two consumer SKUs are expected, codenamed “N1X” and “N1”, with the latter pitched as the weaker of the two, and both have appeared on public benchmarks.
The architecture is tipped to use “ARM foundations” because power efficiency matters in laptops and MediaTek lives on ARM anyway.
There is speculation that Nvidia could co-design ARM IP to stand out from other ARM laptop plays, such as the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Qualcomm.
If Nvidia follows the GB10 pattern, it could use ARM v9.2, but that is still guesswork.
Process rumours point to TSMC 3nm, and the leaked CPU numbers for the bigger N1X suggest a 20-core cluster at 2.81GHz base with a 4GHz boost.
The weaker N1 is expected to land in eight or 12-core setups.
In graphics, the integrated RTX chunk is expected to be Blackwell-based, and early chatter claims a 6,144-CUDA-core layout with 48 SMs.
Despite that headline figure, it is still a mobile part, with leaks suggesting up to 120W TDP, putting it in the same power bracket as AMD Strix Halo and Intel Lunar Lake.
The Geekbench OpenCL numbers being waved around put “Nvidia N1X (6144 Cores)” at 46,361, miles behind “RTX 5070 Desktop (6144 Cores)” at 185,269.
Memory support is expected to include LPDDR5X, with up to one petaflop of FP4 AI compute.
Nvidia is even rumoured to be eyeing handhelds later, since it cannot resist chasing the whole gaming market once it smells blood.
It is not stopping at ARM, either, since it is said to be working on an x86 laptop chip through its partnership with Intel, which would give it a foot in both camps.
That ambition runs straight into supply reality, with DRAM tight and TSMC capacity reportedly fully booked, so consumer dreams may lose to data centre margins.
The expectation is that if the N1X and N1 show up at Computex in early June 2026, early availability may be limited due to a stretched supply chain.
Dell and Lenovo are said to be gearing up for designs, hinting that OEMs are curious, even as they brace for pricing and volume drama.
Pricing is still foggy, but the piece puts the N1X laptops in a rough $1,500 to $2,000 range, depending on configuration.
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The Hot Take: RISC-V getting traction everywhere it appears. I wonder if intel starts breaking into RISC-C SoCs to more easily compete with ARM. Given Intel is a steering board member.
Samsung is taking a notable step in SSD controller development by introducing a proprietary design based on the RISC-V instruction set. The new controller debuts in the upcoming BM9K1 PCIe 5.
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The Hot Take: China going hard into RISC-V for sure, my guess they don't trust the Brit company ARM any more.
China's Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched next-generation chip and operating system co-development alongside the debut of the Xiangshan open-source processor and Ruyi native OS at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum.
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The Hot Take: Wow, intel has to speed up catch up from the looks if it.
AMD's next-generation EPYC Venice "Zen 6" CPU samples have leaked, giving us an early look at the SP7 platform & performance. AMD SP7 Platform Leak Reveals Congo, Kenya, Nigeria Test Boards, Featuring Up To 192 Core EPYC Venice "Zen 6" CPUs Venice is the codename for AMD's 6th Gen EPYC family, which replaces the 5th Gen "Turin" lineup. The lineup will feature the brand new Zen 6 core architecture with up to 256 cores, and some big platform updates. Currently, AMD is shipping out its first Venice samples to customers, and some of these have now appeared within the openbenchmarking […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/amd-epyc-venice-zen-6-192-128-64-core-cpu-leak-sp7-congo-kenya-nigeria-platforms/
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The Hot Take: The Ai "Shortages" are impacting it all.
The new Core Ultra 200S Plus series has received widespread acclaim within the community, and we liked it as well for rejuvenating Intel's otherwise underwhelming CPU generation. Part of the reason they're getting good reviews is their excellent price-to-performance ratio, which seems to be slightly undone at the moment.
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The Hot Take: I'm glad, but will be actually be able to afford or get any in our hands? Also what games are we going to need this for, as game releases have definitely stagnated along with the market.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 60 Series GPUs will be powered by the Rubin architecture, which exists only for AI and data center use thus far. The Rubin CPX, for example, is built around NVIDIA's GR212 chips, but new information shared with YouTuber RedGamingTech claims the RTX 60 Series chips will be the GR202 (RTX 6090), GR203 (RTX 6080), and GR205
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The Hot Take: So does this mean Microsoft Edge won't be consuming ALL of my RAM? I mean this is probably in response to the RAM usage I would think.
Microsoft has confirmed it will build 100% native apps for Windows 11 and form a new team to spearhead the project. It’s unclear whether all new apps will be built on a native UI framework like WinUI, but Microsoft has assured that at least some won’t rely on web-based components.
Back in 2020, Microsoft’s Windows boss, Panos Panay, said the company wants you to love Windows, not just need it. However, nothing really happened, and Panos eventually left the company.
Fast forward to 2026, Windows leadership is promising another revival, but this time, Microsoft appears serious, and we’re seeing internal efforts.
Microsoft has announced a major Windows 11 update to address underlying performance issues, make the context menu load faster, reduce File Explorer launch time, move the Start menu to WinUI, and add the ability to move the taskbar. In fact, you’ll be able to resize the taskbar and switch to a compact layout, similar to the Windows 10 experience.
But it turns out Windows improvements won’t be limited to OS-level components, as Microsoft has also pledged to improve apps.
Rudy Huyn, a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on the Store and File Explorer, says he is forming a team focused on building better apps for Windows 11.
“I’m building a new team to work on Windows apps! You don’t need prior experience with the platform.. what matters most is strong product thinking and a deep focus on the customer,” Huyn wrote in a post on X. “If you’ve built great apps on any platform and care about crafting meaningful user experiences, I’d love to hear from you.”
Many developers are already applying, but some are questioning Microsoft’s approach. One user asked whether these apps would be PWAs (Progressive Web Apps).
To our surprise, Huyn dismissed that idea and said the new Windows 11 apps will be 100% native.
That said, “100%” is a strong claim.
Some so-called native apps today are only partially built with WinUI, with certain features still relying on WebView. A truly native app would be fully built on the WinUI framework, without loading components through WebView.
At the moment, we don’t know what the new “native” Windows 11 apps are coming our way, and it’s also not clear if Microsoft plans to update existing web-based apps with a native UI.
Right now, Microsoft rarely builds native apps for Windows 11. In fact, Windows 11’s built-in video editor, Clipchamp, is also a Progressive Web App.
Microsoft Clipchamp is a WebView2 powered video editor
Moreover, Microsoft’s two flagship products, Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot, are now web apps.
Over the past few years, Microsoft has shown little to no interest in building native apps for Windows 11, and third-party developers have followed the company’s lead.
WhatsApp is one of the popular apps that dropped the native WinUI framework in favor of a Chromium-based web app.
It remains to be seen whether Microsoft can convince Meta and other companies to build native apps for Windows 11, or if it will make Microsoft Store rules stricter.
We also don’t know if Microsoft plans to update existing web-based apps with a native UI.
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The Hot Take: AMD appears to have per-countered intel, sad this won't come out. Granted we can't get any of the other chips at this point.
Intel has officially confirmed that the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus will not be released, ending months of speculation around what many expected to be the flagship model in the company’s Arrow Lake Refresh desktop lineup.
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By ckasprzak | TkOut
| March 28, 2026 |
Gaming
The Hot Take: I think people are rebelling against the Fortnite clones.
Call of Duty has had a rocky reception over the last few years, but arguably the best series installment in the last decade, Call of Duty: Modern Warfarefrom 2019, is undergoing a huge resurgence of players on Steam right now.
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The Hot Take: Something they've been screaming about for a long time. What about options to disable all the Ai in the OS? /crickets
Movable and resizable Taskbar is confirmed to be making its way to Windows 11 this year. Here's everything you need to know about how it will work!
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