Many portable PC enthusiasts welcomed Dell's very recent restoration of familiar XPS model naming convention; replacing generically confusing "Premium" monikers. Unfortunately, back-dated leaks still mention the latter—as evidenced by one of Olrak29's latest shipping manifest discoveries. A November 20 entry lists a Dell 16 Premium model powered by NVIDIA's still-in-progress N1X system-on-a-chip. According to leaks from last year, this "Grace Blackwell" APU utilizes twenty Arm CPU cores and an iGPU specced with 48 compute units. Hopeful Team Green supporters looked forward to a possible official unveiling at last week's CES trade event, but an eventual non-showing (occupying second place on TPU's top five) led to much disappointment.

Apparently, the GB10 Superchip forms the basis of N1 and N1X SoCs—the same tech has been deployed in NVIDIA's extremely expensive DGX Spark AI mini desktop PC. For the moment, Qualcomm's mainstream Snapdragon X chips are keeping Arm-based solutions alive on Windows 11 Arm with Copilot+. A July 2025 rumor posited that teething problems had prompted a major delay of the N1-series project, with a revised launch period supposedly marked down for late 2026 . The November shipping manifest mentions an "ES2" designation, likely implying that Dell was playing around with N1X engineering samples.