The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor is an ARM-based chip that Qualcomm says delivers up to twice the performance of comparable x86 processors in at least some situations. And it’s also more energy-efficient, with Qualcomm claiming it can match competitors’ performance while using just one third as much electricity. Those are bold claims that may […]
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip for Windows PCs is a 12-core processor with up to 45 TOPS AI performance
11 Comments on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip for Windows PCs is a 12-core processor with up to 45 TOPS AI performancePC makers have been shipping Windows PCs with Qualcomm’s ARM-based processors since 2018, and so far they’ve mostly been pretty underwhelming when it comes to bang for the buck. Qualcomm is hoping to turn that around with its new Snapdragon X line of high-performance chips for PCs. The first is the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite, which […]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series chips are heading to PCs to take on Apple’s M-series processors
7 Comments on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series chips are heading to PCs to take on Apple’s M-series processorsQualcomm has been making some of the most powerful ARM-based chips for Android phones for well over a decade. But the company’s chips for laptops? They’ve been rather lackluster so far. Now the company is hoping to turn things around with a brand new Snapdragon X Series line of chips for Windows PCs. They’ll be the […]
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Report: Qualcomm to launch multiple chips with “Oryon” cores in 2024
Qualcomm acquired chip designer Nuvia a few years ago in an effort to play catch up to Apple in the high-performance ARM-based processor space. But it takes a while to integrated new designs into your product roadmap, so we probably won’t see the first Qualcomm Snapdragon processors with “Oryon” CPU cores until 2024. But information […]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 details allegedly leaked (First Nuvia-based design)
Qualcomm’s processors for laptops and desktops could get a major speed boost next year. While the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx chips are a lot more powerful than the previous-gen, they still struggle to compete with the latest Intel, AMD, or Apple processors. But Qualcomm has a plan for catching up. A few years ago the […]
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Qualcomm teases “Oryon” CPU for next-gen devices
Qualcomm’s next chip for flagship phones will start to arrive before the end of the year. But in the grand scheme of things, the recently-announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 represents a relatively modest update when compared with Qualcomm’s next-gen processors which may start to arrive in 2023 and 2024. And now the chip maker has given […]
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Lilbits: RISC-V and de-Googled phones, and Qualcomm sees 2024 as the year of the Snapdragon-powered PC
2 Comments on Lilbits: RISC-V and de-Googled phones, and Qualcomm sees 2024 as the year of the Snapdragon-powered PCMicrosoft’s new Windows Dev Kit 2023 is a $600 mini PC with 32GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD, and the most powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processor to date… but it’s still not as fast as a 2-year old Mac Mini, and reviews of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 9 5G tablet (with the same processor)Â suggest that […]
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ARM sues Qualcomm over license and trademark issues related to Nuvia acquisition
Qualcomm has dominated the smartphone chip market for years, but the company has had a tougher time breaking into the PC market. So Qualcomm acquired a startup called Nuvia last year, which was already working on processors meant to rival the chips that power Apple’s latest laptop and desktop computers. Both Qualcomm and Nuvia make […]
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Qualcomm’s answer to Apple Silicon is coming in 2023 (high-performance chips for Windows PCs)
5 Comments on Qualcomm’s answer to Apple Silicon is coming in 2023 (high-performance chips for Windows PCs)Qualcomm processors power many of the world’s fastest smartphones. But the company has a relative newcomer to the PC space. And most of the PCs with Qualcomm chips released to date are significantly slower than similarly-priced models with Intel or AMD chips.
But Qualcomm says that could change with its next-gen chips, which the company says are expected to arrive in consumer devices in 2023.
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Qualcomm plans to launch a laptop processor that rivals Apple’s by mid 2022
Chip maker Qualcomm makes the processors that power every current-gen Windows on ARM laptop or tablet (which isn’t very many) and a handful of Chromebooks (there are even fewer of those). But the company’s strength has long been in the smartphone space, where Qualcomm powers most Android flagships. Its laptop processors have generally delivered underwhelming […]