DigiTimes quotes industry insiders as saying that Nvidia and MediaTek have reached an agreement to build mobile chipsets with GeForce GPUs as early as next year. A particular target for such chips will be Windows on ARM devices.
Currently, MediaTek makes chipsets that end up in entry-level Chromebooks and has about a 20% share in that market. A flagship chip with a powerful Nvidia GPU will allow MediaTek to enter the high-end laptop segment.
Nvidia has its own ARM-based designs, famously the Nintendo Switch runs on a Tegra chip, although that thing is ancient at this point. There is also Nvidia Shield, but that too is old. The company also produces ARM boards with GeForce GPUs, however, these are primarily intended for machine learning tasks. Something like the Jetson Orin NX has a 1,024-core Ampere GPU with 32 Tensor cores, plus an 8-core Cortex-A78AE CPU and 16GB of RAM with a TDP of 10-25W.
Nvidia Jetson cards
Those don’t actually support Android or ChromeOS (there is a LineageOS port that works, but no official support from Nvidia), this is something that can be fixed with MediaTek’s expertise.
The GeForce GPU will augment the gaming capabilities of MediaTek chips, which currently use ARM GPU designs. It will also include Nvidia’s industry-leading AI capabilities. This could prove to be an interesting challenger to Apple’s M-series-based laptops.
It’s currently unclear if these MediaTek/Nvidia chips will only target Windows laptops or if they’ll also have a low-power version for smartphones. But you can bet that Samsung and AMD are keeping tabs on this collaboration.
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