Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says

Your next laptop may have Nvidia inside – not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple's MacBook line.

Last fall, major OEMs including Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, MSI and Gigabyte began shipping Linux workstations powered by a custom Nvidia processor rather than the usual fare of Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm chips. The question since then has been when will we see the chip or something like it in a machine that doesn't cost $3,000-$4,000 and, critically, can actually run Windows.

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal citing sources familiar with the matter, we may not have to wait much longer for a consumer-focused system on chip (SoC) from Nvidia, with Dell and Lenovo reportedly ...