An engineering sample motherboard featuring NVIDIA's upcoming N1 SoC, which will power its AI PC laptops, has been spotted online.
Online Seller Has Access to an Engineering Sample of NVIDIA's Upcoming N1 SoC & Claims Its Launching Later This Year
Over on the Chinese Goofish resale platform, a user has listed what our first look at an engineering sample of a motherboard from NVIDIA featuring its upcoming N1 SoC. The N1 SoC is NVIDIA's main processor designed for the AI PC segment. This WoA (Windows on Arm) laptop chip will feature full support for the Microsoft Windows OS and Copilot+ features.
Based on the details shared by the user, the motherboard is still an early engineering sample, and based on the design, it looks definitely like a laptop solution, though the user states that this compact design is also suitable for compact yet powerful tablets.
On a closer look, we can see that the N1 SoC, which is very much like the GB10 silicon for the NVIDIA Spark AI systems, is the biggest chip on the motherboard. It is surrounded by eight LPDDR5X modules for a total of 128 GB of memory. These modules are SK hynix "H58G78CK8B" ICs rated at 8533 MT/s speeds. The motherboard packs an 8+6+2 phase VRM design.
There are two M.2 slots, which feature a 2240 form factor length. There are a few IO ports along with an integrated WIFI chip on the mainboard, but there are plenty of PCB traces for additional IO.
The cooling solution will likely include a large blower-style fan, as evident by the cut-out, and the NVIDIA N1 SoC will be featured under a heatsink solution. The IO on this specific motherboard includes a USB port, an HDMI port, a USB Type-C port, and a microphone/headphone combo jack.
The NVIDIA N1 SoC motherboard is currently listed for 9999 RMB or around $1400 US, but that's just a placeholder since such listings can be negotiated down to much cheaper rates. There's no proof that the platform would actually work, but it will be interesting to try it out. With a rumored launch in the second half of this year, it looks like we might hear soon about NVIDIA's WoA plans at Computex 2026, which is just a few months away.
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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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