processors

The arrival of NVIDIA processors is imminent and brings 8 laptops under its arm

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When the river sounds, it carries water. And rumors of NVIDIA launching its own processors for home computers have been around since at least a couple of years ago. Well, the arrival of Jensen Huang’s company in this segment is imminent and represents a total challenge to the hegemony of Intel and AMD and the x86 architecture. What’s more, it points to a paradigm shift in how we will understand Windows personal computers in the coming years. Bottom line: think Apple Silicon. The context. To date, Intel and AMD have divided the Windows laptop pie and ARM architecture It was intended either for more or less affordable and basic computers with Chromebook and MediaTek or for an expensive MacBook. It is true that already is there a powerful laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon under the hood that runs Windows, but the arrival of NVIDIA chips this first quarter of 2026 wants to be the definitive push. Thus, these ambitious and powerful teams will not equip an NVIDIA GPU with an Intel CPU as we have been seeing for years, but rather they will have an NVIDIA SoC (actually, there are two models: N1 and N1X). Simply put, NVIDIA takes care of two essential pieces of hardware. Why is it important. NVIDIA wants to do with Windows what Apple has achieved with its M chips, an ecosystem where the processor and graphics are integrated and understood wonderfully, which is noticeable in issues such as battery consumption, efficiency or performance itself. The blessed convergence. For years, if you wanted a powerful computer for gaming or work, you had to choose between Intel or AMD and the x86 architecture, but NVIDIA enters a china shop like an elephant with the ARM architecture and its advantages: more efficiency, less heating and longer battery life. Until now, finding a reliable gaming device to play with was a pipe dream, but the N1X chip with the Blackwell architecture of the RTX 50 wants to change it. And furthermore, you could do it on more stylized equipment. On the other hand, these chips use unified memory (up to 128 GB LPDDR5X), which means fewer bottlenecks in demanding tasks such as gaming, local AI or video editing. What has escaped. A leak from Lenovo has revealed that the company has manufactured six laptops with the N1 and N1X processors, including a 15-inch gaming device. An X/Twitter user has published the list of the teams. The user’s profile is completely anonymous, not that it does not inspire much confidence, but there is more: this page updates The Legion control software already shows the existence of a “Legion 7 15N1X11” laptop where the “N1X” is precisely the NVIDIA SoC. Besides, The Verge has discovered already indexed and protected Lenovo content that refers to products with these processors. And not just Lenovo: Dell has also missed a premium device with NVIDIA N1X on its website, such as another X/Twitter user swiped. just a couple of days ago Digitimes gave to date: It will be this spring, although more devices will arrive this summer. After suffer a delayit seems that they will finally become a reality and will not stop here: the company already has the N2 and N2X on its roadmap for the end of 2027. Product descriptions with NVIDIA SoCs already appear on the Lenovo website The processors. There is little information about these components beyond a Geekbench leak that must be taken with tweezers. We know that the most powerful and aimed at models with more muscle is the N1X and rumors suggest that it has a 20-core CPU and an integrated GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores (with Blackwell architecture). However, the CEO of NVIDIA already confirmed than the N1 and the superchip GB10 They are practically the same. The N1 is simply a more modest chip focused on thermal efficiency and battery life and aimed at ultrabooks and mid-range. The first laptops with NVIDIA chips. The leaked devices that will debut with SoC from the company led by Huang will be eight: a Lenovo Legion 7 (15N1X11) gaming laptop with the N1X chip, the Lenovo Yoga 9 and Yoga Pro 7 convertibles with two versions to choose between N1X and N1, the IdeaPad Slim 5 in 14 and 16-inch versions with the N1 chip and the Dell “Premium 16”, probably XPS or Alienware, with an OLED screen and chip N1X. NVIDIA is not new to this. Lenovo is the largest PC manufacturer in the world (as collects Statista) and that it launches several models of its most important families means that it has strong reasons to trust that the performance of NVIDIA chips is up to par. However, NVIDIA’s ARM PC chips have been a long time coming, but that does not mean that it is a newbie in the sector, it is worth remembering that the switch It has a Tegra SoC and that this line has previously been the brain of tablets and even the Microsoft Surface or the Shield for TV. It is the beginning of a new cold war. And if confirmed, Microsoft’s desire would be fulfilled: the Windows on arm as a real alternative to Apple’s Macbook. The first quarter is not only the launch date, it can become a before and after between NVIDIA, Apple, AMD and Qualcomm for control of the computers of the future. In Xataka | The new thing from NVIDIA is called DLSS 4.5 and it seems like witchcraft: it can multiply the performance of the GeForce RTX 50 by six In Xataka | The US plan to stop China’s AI is failing. Huawei is becoming the “Chinese NVIDIA” Cover | Hillel Steinberg

A 15,000 processors

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Huawei has presented Not one, but two products with which he wants to challenge Nvidia’s domain in the segment of the great clusters of Ia chips. Its new “superpod” atlas 950 and Atlas 960. These are high performance clusters with a crucial characteristic: thousands of chips specialized in AI have gathered to be used in future data centers. Why is it important. This movement reinforces the position in the global IA panorama by Huawei. These “superpod” group thousands of their own AI chips, and suppose a notable weapon to compete with the current Nvidia domain especially in a China increasingly overturned in Avoid totally The dependence of foreign partners. Not in vain his administration of cyberspace has banned companies in the country to buy or try Nvidia chips. If you want to win Nvidia, scale. Huawei’s chips cannot compete from you to you with the modern Nvidia chips, so Huawei has found an alternative solution: focusing on climbing their solutions by combining thousands of chips with a connectivity technology that competes directly with the NVLink of Nvidia. The number of chips that meet these clusters is as follows: ATLAS 950 OVERPOD: 8,192 processors ATLAS 960 OVERPOD: 15,488 processors Of supercluster superpod. Starting from that base, Huawei also announced the new 950 Supercluster and Atlas 960 Supercluster. These systems are designed to go one step further, and the goal is to support between 500,000 and one million ED processors. According to Huawei, this would make them the “most powerful computer clusters in the world.” By and for China. Xu Zhijun, acting president of Huawei, confirmed the strategy of the company in the Huawei Connect event held in Shanghai. According to his words “Huawei seeks to create a” Supernode + Cluster “computer solution using chips manufacturing processes available in China to meet the growing computer needs.” China pushing. This technological impulse is produced in the middle of a tense Commercial and Technological Battle Between the United States and China. The restrictions imposed by the North American country They have ended up producing a clear reaction in the Asian giant, which wants to avoid the dependence of foreign partners. For years Nvidia has been the standard for the AI ​​industry, but China is looking to boost national alternatives … and is taking notable steps to achieve it. New Ascend on Way. Huawei is also preparing New artificial intelligence chips. The Ascend 950PR will be theoretically launched at the beginning of next year, while the Ascend 950DT will do so at the end of 2026. In that road map has also talked about the Ascend 960, which will arrive in 960, and the Ascend 970, which will do it a year later, in 2028. Source: Semiianalysis. The idea seems to work. We saw a few weeks ago how that great cluster approach to Huawei It seems to make sense. Its cloudmatrix 384 nodes combines 384 GPUS Ascend 910C, and surpasses NVL72 NVIDIA based on the most powerful GB200. It does not do it at the chip level, but at the system level: the power is almost double and the HBM memory capacity is 3.6x. One thing is safe: Nvidia is not going to be still, and other rivals like AMD are not going to do, but here Huawei has a promising strategy. Image | Paul Hanaoka In Xataka | After mobile phones, cars, robots and AI, the next great technological avalanche of China arrives: the glasses

Samsung had it difficult with its exynos processors. Google and Xiaomi have only aggravated their situation

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The future of Samsung processors is an unknown. The company It crosses one of the most difficult stages in its historyunable to follow competitors such as TSMC and SK Hynix. One of the few shelters who stayed beyond exynos in Galaxy were the Google Pixel. Google’s mobiles incoporab tensor chips manufactured by the South Korean giant. But the agreement between both companies comes to an end, after years of criticism for the low performance of the Google Pixel with respect to its direct competence. The turn of Google TSMC, accompanied by giants such as Xiaomi demonstrating what they are capable with the help of TSMC They put Samsung in an even more delicate situation: they need to demonstrate that they are competitive in chips, and need customers who trust them. Goodbye to Samsung. Google, According to Taiwanese sourceshas closed an interannual agreement with TSMC for the manufacture of its tensioner processors. It is a collaboration that, in case Google wants it (they are still those who have the power to design the chip), you can completely change the Google Pixel as we know them today. According to Digitimes, Google executives recently visited the TSMC headquarters in Taiwan to close a cooperation agreement between three and five years. Own design … or mediatek. Although it is an open secret that Google will have processors with TSMC technology, we are not sure if they will design them or if they will leave this work in the hands of a third manufacturer. Recent leaks talk about An alliance between Google and Mediatekone that would make enough sense. MediaTek is known for offering a better quality-price compared to Qualcomm, and solutions such as dimensity 9400 have proven to live up to the best chips on the market. The Xiaomi case. Betting on TSMC is betting on the winning horse, Xiaomi knows it well. The Chinese company has designed one of the best processors in the market, at the height of the most powerful and efficient of the moment: the Apple A18 Pro, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and the Mediatek 9400 Dimensity. What Samsung has not achieved in all his career with Exynos has achieved by Xiaomi with the first chip that is taken seriously. The second generation process of TSMC three nanometers is fantastic, and they have not hesitated to get on this ship. The exynos 2500. We have been listening to the Exynos 2500the processor that will allegedly give life to the Galaxy Z Flip7. The problem? The same as always. According to Geekbench data, your scores are far from the current high -end chips. Specifically, yield as a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Being a new horn processor, to perform as a platform almost two years ago is not the best news for the company. At the moment, this is filtered information, and it will remain to verify how this processor pays in the final units. The race for the two nanometers. With its main rivals betting on TSMC (including Samsung herself, which currently uses Qualcomm Chips in her best mobiles), and without customers like Google, Samsung needs to rival TSMC and attract new customers to make chips. The exynos division is losing moneyand the manufacture of their processors It has been falling eight percentage points In the last five years. Samsung wants its second production plant in Taylor (USA) Reutersdue to lack of customers who make it viable. This factory will assume the manufacture of semiconductors with two nanometers lithographic nodes, an essential role for Samsung to fight to recover its competitiveness against giants such as TSMC. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google Pixel 9A, Analysis: The mobile that reminded me why I like so much Android

Samsung is losing money with its exynos processors. No one knows what your shock plan will be

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Samsung Electronics has a problem with its LSI division (Large Scale Integration) System. This, in charge of the design and development of chip and semiconductor solutions, is the one behind the processors, sensors and circuits integrated in the different Samsung devices. Not only is it responsible for manufacturing Exynosit is also the one behind the image sensors ISOCEL or the company’s modems 5g. According to Korean sourcesSamsung is considering integral reorganization to save the situation of this division, currently in an unwanted economic situation. The company has denied everything. Despite this, there is something undeniable: We do not know what will happen to exynos processors in high -end modelsand the exynos 2600 will be one of the keys to the future of this division. The exynos division is losing money The System LSI division has registered Estimated losses in 1 billion Wones in 2024a result that is partly attributed to the inability to integrate the processor Exynos 2500 in the Galaxy S25 series. This model ended up reaching the market with Qualcomm processor, after the desired performance in its own processor was not achieved. Kwon Hyung-Man, General Director of the System LSI Division, acknowledged in February that The performance of the business unit will remain slow Due to the loss of launching this chip for the Galaxy S25 series. To face the crisis, there are those who propose that the company would unite the chips manufacturing units with the manufacturing of mobile phones. Having both the design of smartphones and the chips under the same roof, a door opens to improve the efficiency and integration of the components. A challenge, since this integration could negatively affect the financial performance of this last division. Although Korean sources point in this direction, Samsung Electronics has denied that (for the moment), this reorganization will become effective. The future of exynos 2600 The success or failure of the next generation of processors, The exynos 2600 could be decisive for the future of the LSI division. Currently, the company is focused on the development of this chip using the process SF2 (2 nanometers), hoping to reverse the current situation. Recently, the initial stage of exynos 2600 has been completed, which marks an important milestone in the manufacturing process, since it implies the transition from production to production. Samsung faces a huge challenge. Qualcomm is in one of the best moments in its history, with a 8 elite that has shown unprecedented performance, Mediatek planting And, for the first time in many years, at the height of its direct rivals, and an Apple that remains one of the fundamental pieces at the time of mark the way in chips yield. Internal coordination and efficiency in the development of the next Exynos 2600 chip will be key to recovering profitability in this division. The final decision on the reorganization of the System LSI division and the future of Exynos could have a significant impact on the company’s strategy in the coming years. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy A56, first impressions: the candidate for king of the mid -range repeats formula and adds a new ingredient

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