If 2026 has been a poor year in regard to hardware pricing, it’s at least been a good one in terms of companies and architectures spreading their roots into unfamiliar territories. Primarily, I’m thinking about Nvidia RTX Spark, the company’s first proper desktop/mobile processor announced just last month. And now, it seems Samsung has taken note, as it will reportedly be making its own Arm-based chip for desktop/mobile, or ‘AI PCs’ as they now unfortunately seem to be called.
Apparently it will be called Gaia—a strange name, perhaps, given the planet-eating energy consumption of AI datacentres. But enough cynicism, the double plus-side here is that not only will we be getting a new processor, but also hopefully some decent competition against Nvidia’s RTX Spark alongside Qualcomm’s Arm-based chips.
According to Seoul Economic Daily, “industry sources” have it that Samsung Gaia will be based on a 4 nm process and is targeting production as early as next year. Apparently, the company is already talking to PC manufacturers regarding the supply of the chip.
4 nm production is what AMD and Nvidia currently build on, but that’s over on TSMC’s side of the pitch. Samsung’s own 4 nm tech hasn’t been as widely adopted, but that’s been changing over the last year, and now it seems Samsung deems it ripe for producing PCs.