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Jeremy Laird

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

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Back in November we reported that Nvidia was planning to put an ARM CPU for the PC into production in 2025. Now it seems the chip, or at least some version of it, may have been spotted crunching very slowly through Geekbench.

The chip on Geekbench is registered as the N1X, which aligns with rumours from January that Nvidia would unleash a "high end" N1X Arm-based chip this year, with a more mainstream N1 variant following in 2026. Both chips are said to be built on TSMC's N3 node and engineered in partnership with Mediatek.

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