Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus platform for Windows laptops – Qualcomm

While this isn't the first time we've seen Qualcomm processors in a laptop, it is the first time the company can have a chip that directly competes with Apple, Intel, and AMD in terms of speed as well as battery life. In fact, the company itself recently stated that its upcoming proposals even outperform Apple's M3 SoC, which has yet to be confirmed.

The Snapdragon X Plus is Qualcomm's entry-level chip for laptops. It has 10 cores (instead of the 12 cores of the To help with performance. Of general AI applications that will run on every computer. Of course, TOPS is an arbitrary metric that can sound more impressive than it is because it doesn't necessarily take into account the type or quality of those accounts.

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Qualcomm will also release from next month the Snapdragon All three have the same NPU and support the same memory at the same speed as the Snapdragon X Plus. The top two SKUs feature what Qualcomm calls Dual-Core Boost, up to 4.2GHz, which sounds a bit like Intel's Turbo Boost or AMD's Turbo Core. These features dynamically adjust the processor frequency, providing more power to the processor only when it's needed.

All 2024 Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus chipsets

What stands out most about Qualcomm's new chips for Windows PCs is that they don't have a hybrid architecture like Apple and Intel's processors, which divide the total number of cores into those dedicated to performance and those dedicated to efficiency. Both companies have promoted this architecture as a great way to reduce power consumption and increase battery life. But Qualcomm says all of its new Snapdragon laptop cores are “performance cores” and claims they still outperform Apple, Intel and AMD's offerings in terms of performance, power efficiency and battery life. Additionally, PC games should “work” with Windows on Arm, even through emulation with very good performance.

May is expected to be the month in which we learn all about Qualcomm and Microsoft's next bet, with the reveal of the next 'AI PC'. At the Build 2024 conference, Microsoft is expected to demonstrate the next version of Windows on Arm that will run any system that includes one of Qualcomm's new processors. In addition, most manufacturers are preparing to announce their own proposals that will include one of the new chipsets, with Lenovo, Dell, ASUS and even Microsoft itself being among the first to launch such a model.