MediaTek looking to build a chipset with an Nvidia GPU next year

DigiTimes is quoting industry insiders who claim that Nvidia and MediaTek have struck a deal to build mobile chipsets with GeForce GPUs as early as next year. A particular target for such chips will be Windows on ARM devices.

Currently, MediaTek makes chipsets that end up in entry-level Chromebooks and has around 20% share in that market. A flagship chip with a powerful Nvidia GPU will allow MediaTek to push into the high-end laptop segment.

Nvidia has its own ARM-based designs, famously the Nintendo Switch runs on a Tegra chip, though that thing is ancient at this point. There’s…