When NVIDIA's First Consumer PC Chips Are Coming To Challenge AMD And Intel

Who makes CPUs? Well, you've got AMD, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, and Mediatek as the major players in consumer devices, with companies like Samsung, Broadcom, Google, Huawei, UNISOC, and Rockchip each making up smaller slices of the market (even if their portfolios are often much larger). NVIDIA's there too, though; while everyone knows about NVIDIA's GeForce gaming GPUs and dedicated AI chips, NVIDIA sells quite a few CPUs, too. Primarily, at this time, that's through Nintendo's handhelds—at least in terms of volume—but the company is clearly eyeing the laptop and desktop market as well with its upcoming N1/N1X processors.

If you're desperate for an all-NVIDIA gaming machine, you likely won't have long to wait. Digitimes reports that Windows devices running N1[X] processors are scheduled to launch this quarter, meaning no later than March. That's a little surprising, if true ...