After announcing its Blackwell AI developer chips back in January, ComputerBase reports that it’s rumored to be bringing out a cut-down GB10 chip at a more affordable rate. Cutting down the pricing from $3,000, you might be able to afford this for a DIY solution instead, with a whole system on chip solution with a partnership with Mediatek.

This announcement will likely show up at Mediatek’s Computex keynote on the 20th or Nvidia’s the day before. Either of these might show off Nvidia’s foray into expanding its offerings with an ARM-based CPU, and considering there have been rumors of MediaTek expanding its capacity at ASE, which provides semiconductor assembly and testing. Which means plenty of tech is coming out soon, with announcements at Computex.

Nvidia N1(X) rumors

We’re expecting to see both N1 and N1X series, which are designed for laptops and desktops, respectively. This is likely to be a cut-down version of the DGX Spark Mini-PC that combines an ARM Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU to create machines capable of some heavy tasks with efficiency.

That system came with 20 ARM cores, split into 10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725. It also had 1 PFLOP of GPU compute at FP4 precision and a significantly fast 128GB of LPDDR5X memory. It then provided a choice of 1 to 4TB of NVMe SSD storage, and an ideal solution for those working on LLMs or any other hard work in a small form factor.

In comparison, the N1X and N1 system is rumored to feature 8-12 ARM cores with unknown GPU specs. Along with native support for Windows on ARM, we’ll soon learn more at its Computex debut. But with likely less memory support as well, somewhere in the range of 16-32GB, it will significantly drop the price down from the $3,000 mark.

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