Nvidia will soon be releasing its own laptop CPUs that do away completely with AMD or Intel CPU technology, and instead rely on Arm-based CPU tech built right into Nvidia's own system-on-a-chip (SoC). The Nvidia N1 chip is expected to power a range of laptops from partners such as Dell and Lenovo, but gaming performance and compatibility of the devices isn't yet known. Nvidia has produced its own Arm-based SoCs before, and still does so for applications such as in-car entertainment. However, it has been a while since the company released a chip directly intended to power consumer PC devices. With the CPU portion of the SoC being based on Arm technology, low power consumption is expected to be a major benefit of these chips, but with most PC games and apps developed for use on x86 CPU designs, as made by AMD and Intel, it's far from a certainty that these will end up ranking among the best gaming laptops.