(Image credit: Getty Images) Some people are pretty excited that we are on the cusp of a new Windows PC era ignited by technologies from the mighty Nvidia and Arm. Our article on the teasers for the rumored wave of new N1X laptops makes it clear that companies like Nvidia and Microsoft are excited, at least. However, Microsoft veteran Steven Sinofsky is here to remind folks that it has been done before, with a similar level of simmering excitement, when the first Surface hybrid PC ran on Nvidia Tegra Arm silicon back in 2010/11. The first Surface ran on Nvidia Tegra ARM chips precisely because the graphics processor and drivers were so much better than others and Nvidia was a fantastic partner. Windows 8 on ARM supported Qualcomm and TI as well. Slide below is from the CES event Jan 2011.It was later… https://t.co/TGXe1hiG7U pic.twitter.com/716Ghar5j5 May 30, 2026 Sinofsky shares some interesting media in the above embedded Tweet.…