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Smoke, mirrors and a leather jacket

5 June 2026

Earlier this week I reported on NVIDIA's big announcement at Computex -- the "new" unified CPU/GPU it calls the N1X that is a "smartphone moment", according to the company's head.

By integrating up to 20 ARM cores and a CUDA-based GPU that is roughly equivalent to an RTX5070, the N1X silicon is brand new and will change the face of portable and desktop computing -- so we were told.

Well it seems that Mrs Huang's boy has been not completely honest with us. In fact, some say he's been trying to pull the leather (of his trademark jacket) over our eyes.

Is the N1X really brand new? Is it going to revolutionise the market?

Let's take a closer look and find out.

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