We might have to wait until next year to see those all-Nvidia laptops with custom Arm processors

Nvidia's long-fabled Arm chip is one of those rare PC hardware prospects that comes along every now and then and really tickles the excitement bone, primarily because it feels very new—like when Intel started its discrete Arc graphics cards. So naturally, I'm sad to hear that the .

That's according to Charlie Demerjian of SemiAccurate, who cites "multiple sources" confirming that Nvidia's latest "whoopsie", in combination with a , has set the project back to 2026.

Previously, it looked like we might see it , and there were even (incorrect, it turned out) back in May. We also recently saw with an Arm CPU.

The as-yet unofficial but project is expected to have Nvidia pumping out custom Arm-based silicon for laptops based on a scaled-back version of DGX Spark, the home-user supercomputer Nvidia announced at the start of the year. Ie, presumably a scaled-back version of the 20-Arm core GB10 chip that sits at the heart of DGX Spark.

If it is based on this, however, it would mean the new chips would use Arm-designed cores rather than ones Nvidia has designed (but still using Arm architecture).

Previously, however, there were , plus Nvidia , lending even more credence to the custom design idea. Now, arguably, this delay lends further credence to that, because it seems less likely that there would be issues with a chip based on cores already in play in DGX Spark than with an entirely new custom chip.

Whenever the chip ends up arriving and whoever ends up designing it, seeing an Arm chip in what will presumably be gaming or at least gaming-capable laptops is a very exciting prospect. That's not only because current rumours have it , but also because it could shimmy Windows on Arm forward a little.

I spoke with Arm last month, and while I was , [[link]] I'm not 100% convinced. Our Ian Evenden and found the experience… problematic, to say the least. Windows on Arm just doesn't seem ready for gaming yet, despite improvements to Microsoft's Prism emulation layer.

We'll just have to wait and see what Nvidia has in store for us, but anything that knocks on the door of not just processor but also operating [[link]] system competition is something to look forward to in my book. It's just a shame we might have to wait a while longer than expected to see it.

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