A recently uncovered shipping manifest has revealed that Dell has been experimenting with an unreleased Dell 16 Premium laptop powered by Nvidia’s in-development N1X system-on-a-chip, despite the company having moved back to its traditional XPS naming for consumer notebooks. The November 20 entry, spotted by leaker Olrak29, shows the older Premium branding still in use internally, suggesting this configuration predates Dell’s public rebranding while hinting at ongoing work with new Arm-based silicon. The listing aligns with earlier leaks that framed N1X as a key part of Nvidia’s push into high performance Arm processors for portable and desktop systems.
According to detailed leaks from last year, this ‘Grace Blackwell’ APU utilizes twenty Arm CPU cores and an iGPU specced with 48 compute units, positioning it as a substantial step up over current integrated graphics solutions. Enthusiasts had expected Nvidia to formally unveil the N1X platform at last week’s CES trade show, where it was widely tipped as a potential headline announcement. However, the chip ended up as a notable absence, with its non-appearance earning second place on TechPowerUp’s list of the top five no-shows from CES 2026 and fueling speculation about delays or strategy shifts.
The article notes that the GB10 Superchip forms the basis of both N1 and N1X SoCs, and the same underlying technology has already appeared in Nvidia’s extremely expensive DGX Spark Artificial Intelligence mini desktop PC. In the consumer Windows ecosystem, Qualcomm’s mainstream Snapdragon X chips are currently the primary Arm-based solutions keeping Windows 11 Arm with Copilot+ in the spotlight. A rumor from July 2025 claimed that early issues had forced Nvidia to significantly delay the N1-series project, with a revised launch window supposedly pushed to late 2026. The November shipping manifest’s ‘ES2’ label indicates that the Dell 16 Premium system was likely configured with an N1X engineering sample, highlighting that hardware testing is progressing even as the official launch timetable remains uncertain.
