Competition may be intensifying in the Windows on Arm space amid industry talk that Nvidia is preparing a chip pairing of next-generation Arm cores with its Blackwell GPU architecture.
NVIDIA AI PC chip with Arm and Blackwell cores
Qualcomm has been the main chipmaker powering Arm-based Windows systems, and Microsoft itself is using that silicon for a new generation of Surface Laptop and Pro tablets. These are just two of 20 "Copilot+ PCs" Qualcomm says its OEM partners are preparing for launch.
But a purported exclusivity deal between Redmond and the chip maker for Windows on Arm platforms is said to expire this year, opening up the market to other silicon suppliers such as Mediatek, which already makes chips for Chromebooks.
Nvidia is looking to join this party, according to the word on the street. The GPU giant is expected to prepare a system-on-chip (SoC) that pairs Arm's Cortex-X5 core design with GPUs based on its own recently introduced Blackwell architecture.
