• Nvidia’s Chinese competitor Moore Threads beats it to launching a laptop featuring custom 12-core Arm chip - “MTT AI Book” can run Windows, seems to have adopted Arm before Nvidia’s N1X The GPU specs are unknown. • Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. • You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful We’ve been waiting on Nvidia’s long-rumored N1X Arm chips for a while at this point. • Through several leaks and official teases, the company’s ARM-based consumer SoC has excited many as it’s poised to open the gates of high-end Arm performance on Windows machines. • Interestingly, it seems like the “Chinese Nvidia” has beaten the Green Team to the punch with its own custom Arm chip in a new laptop. • Moore Threads, the region’s local darling, has just launched the “MTT AI Book” - a new thin-and-light laptop powered by an in-house “MT1000” CPU.
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- Moore Threads, a Chinese chip maker, has released the MTT AI Book, a thin‑and‑light laptop powered by its own 12‑core ARM SoC (MT1000) clocked at 2.65 GHz. The chip, dubbed “Yangtze,” pairs the CPU with a MUSA‑based GPU and a 50 TOPS NPU, and shares 32 GB LPDDR5X‑7500 memory. The device ships with a 1 TB SSD running a Linux‑based AIOS but can also run Windows via virtualization. While the SoC’s Geekbench scores (1,127 single‑core, 7,420 multi‑core) lag behind mainstream CPUs, the launch marks the first ARM‑based Windows laptop from a Chinese competitor, beating Nvidia’s long‑rumored N1X ARM SoC to market.
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