Nvidia's first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop

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We've suspected that Nvidia's making an Arm processor for over a year, now, but how it will be built, what form it will take, and what market it will target are questions that have remained somewhat of a speculative mystery. Now, however, there's possibly good news for us gamers because, rumour is, these chips will be used for relatively low-power but decently performing gaming laptops.

This rumour does come from tech YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead (MLID), so prepare to to crank those the salt and pepper grinders. Apparently, though, a source from an Nvidia partner says the chip is «targeting up to 80 W», and MLID quotes another unknown source as saying, «Behind the scenes, Nvidia is comparing their new APU to an RTX 4070 laptop GPU running at ~65 W in gaming performance.»

That's not all, though, because again according to MLID, the previously quoted Nvidia partner also claims Nvidia is "at least partnering with Dell under the Alienware brand" for the new Arm-based APU. What this would mean, presumably, is a low-power but high-performing Alienware gaming laptop using an Nvidia CPU + GPU and Arm on Windows.

MLID also quotes an Nvidia source as saying «we're trying to rush this thing out by late 2025 or 2026 at the latest». That ties in with what we'd heard previously, that an Nvidia APU should be entering production in 2025.

The Nvidia source also reportedly says this chip's going to be a «direct competitor to AMD's Halo APUs» and will have a «powerful NPU». And MLID clarifies that «they think it will be at Strix Halo performance at most, maybe a little lower».

Regarding the NPU: Of course it's going to have one. Because Nvidia and AI go together like Cherry and Bakewell (or Apple and Pie for the Americans in the audience). But an Nvidia APU with RTX 4070 mobile-level performance that will compete with AMD Strix Halo? That's the real surprise, here, and it certainly tickles my fancy.

AMD's Strix Halo chips (AKA Ryzen AI 300 Max chips) are going to be the company's most