Enlarge / A teaser picture for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X SoCs. (credit score: Qualcomm)
Qualcomm’s annual “Snapdragon Summit” is arising later this month, and the corporate seems able to share extra about its long-planned next-generation Arm processor for PCs. The corporate hasn’t shared many specifics but, however yesterday we lastly received a reputation: “Snapdragon X,” which is coming in 2024, and it could lastly do for Arm-powered Home windows PCs what Apple Silicon chips did for Macs a number of years in the past (although it is coming a bit later than Qualcomm had initially hoped).
Qualcomm has been making chips for PCs for years, most just lately the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (you may additionally understand it because the Microsoft SQ3, which is what the chip is named in Floor gadgets). However these chips have by no means fairly been quick sufficient to problem Intel’s Core or AMD’s Ryzen CPUs in mainstream laptops. Any efficiency deficit is particularly noticeable as a result of many individuals will run a minimum of a number of apps designed for the x86 model of Home windows, code which must be translated on the fly for Arm processors.
So why will Snapdragon X be any totally different? It is as a result of these would be the first chips borne of Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Nuvia was based and staffed by fairly a number of key personnel from Apple’s chipmaking operation, the staff that had already upended a small nook of the x86 PC market by designing the Apple M1 and its offshoots. Apple had sued Nuvia co-founder and present Qualcomm engineering SVP Gerard Williams for poaching Apple staff, although the corporate dropped the go well with with out remark earlier this 12 months.
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