If you think NVIDIA only wants to sell GPUs, servers, and “AI future,” then you may have to prepare to see it reach into laptops. Recently, an engineering sample motherboard that is said to be equipped with NVIDIA’s new “N1” notebook SoC was photographed and leaked. The most eye-catching thing is not how weird the board is, but that it packs 8 memory packages directly around the core, totaling 128GB LPDDR5X, and uses SK hynix particles. For notebook computers, the specification of 128GB LPDDR5X is exaggerated in itself, let alone the “soldered to the board, you can’t even think about upgrading” route.
Specification details: LPDDR5X-8533, 8 packages totaling 128GB, also suspected to have 2 M.2 2240
These packages are labeled SK hynix H58G78CK8B, 8 of them add up to 128GB, and run on LPDDR5X-8533. Another close-up shot shows that the I/O around the entire board does not look like a random drawing like a “concept map”: HDMI, USB Type-C, USB Type-A, and 3.5mm audio holes are visible; there are also signs of “two M.2 2240 slots” and onboard Wi-Fi. To put it simply, this is not just a display board to show you “the existence of chips”, it is more like it is already following the rhythm of “making a machine that can be sold”.
Rumor has it that it will start moving around Computex, and Dell and Lenovo models may appear in 2026
The report also mentioned that NVIDIA is expected to announce N1 notebook-related products in the next few weeks, close to Computex; and there are rumors that Dell and Lenovo are making N1 platform notebooks, including “Legion” brand gaming models. Sound outrageous? But NVIDIA’s cooperation with OEMs has only grown larger in recent years. What you see now may not be “another ARM/SoC”, but NVIDIA’s attempt to turn the laptop into “more like a small AI workstation”.
Price signal: There was a price of 9999 RMB
A more sensitive paragraph is: this board or related kits once appeared at a price of 9999 yuan (approximately USD 1,462 / TWD 46,494 / HKD 11,454 / MYR 5,798), but currently “this offer is no longer valid.” This price point doesn’t look like an ordinary consumer notebook, but more like a developer/engineering sample/early platform test.
What’s even more interesting is that the report draws an analogy between the positioning of N1 and NVIDIA’s own GB10 Blackwell Superchip (used for DGX Spark and small AI workstations): if the specifications are close, there may be “20-core CPU + up to 6144 CUDA cores” notebook specifications that sound like writing science fiction novels.