Nvidia aims to shake up the PC market with its first consumer CPU-GPU platform in 2025, leveraging its AI and graphics expertise to challenge Intel and AMD's dominance.
Nvidia is gearing up to launch an Arm-based platform for consumer PCs in September 2025, a big move signaling the company's ambitious entry into the CPU market. This plan blends Nvidia's CPU and GPU designs and is aimed at high-end devices, with a wider release expected around March 2026.
Nvidia leverages its experience from its work with Grace CPUs and Tegra processors, plus its stronghold in AI servers and the graphics card industry. Industry analysts think all this experience gives Nvidia a solid leg up as it takes on the consumer PC market.
The timing's interesting, too. It lines up with the expected end of Qualcomm's exclusive deal for Windows on Arm devices, meaning the door's open for new players and likely a spike in competition in the Arm-based Windows PC space.
Nvidia's approach might go one of two ways: either a more mainstream chip with built-in graphics to compete with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm or a high-performance, gaming-oriented CPU teamed up with a separate GPU. The latter could take aim at the traditional x86 gaming scene.
To pull this off in the gaming arena, Nvidia will need to make sure modern games run smoothly, but their existing ties with game devs could make this easier. Nvidia did try stepping into the PC space before, back when Windows RT launched in 2011, but things didn't go quite as planned back then.
