NVIDIA's N1X Arm Chip For Consumers Spotted In Dell Laptop But Is A Launch Imminent?

Enthusiast sleuth Gray (@Olrak29_ on Xwitter) has been digging into the shipping logs again, and this time the rabbit hole leads straight into NVIDIA's long-rumored Arm ambitions for consumer PCs. This time around, he spotted a particularly telling entry in NBD Data shipping records, where buried in the usual logistics soup was this rather unsubtle line item:

That's a lot of capital letters to say that Dell has engineering samples of a 16-inch "Premium" laptop with an OLED like the one we reviewed, but instead running NVIDIA's N1X processor. The "ES2" tag suggests second-generation engineering silicon, and "DVT"—standing for Design Validation Test—is the important bit. In laptop development, DVT is essentially a release candidate phase, not a napkin sketch.

The shipment date was November 20, 2025, which is likely why the log says "Premium" and not ...