Qualcomm discovers the Snapdragon

Qualcomm has given a little brother to the Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite processors. This is the Snapdragon These also tend to be the models with the most commercial output. The first to jump on the bandwagon will be Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo, which will launch their devices over the coming months.

The Snapdragon X follows in the footsteps of its older brothers and is manufactured using a 4-nanometer process. Inside we find an eight-core Qualcomm Oryon processor that reaches a speed of up to 3 GHz, while the NPU reaches 45 TOPS, five more than any device requires to meet the minimum requirements of PC Copilot+. Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus have the same NPU, but their processor has more cores that reach higher speeds. Specifically, the X Elite has 12 cores and 3.8 GHz, and the X Plus has 10 cores and 3.4 GHz.

It seems that the Snapdragon The company assures that tomorrow it will present the first mini desktop PC with Snapdragon proposals.

With the Snapdragon Perhaps in the short term few things will change, but if these chips with ARM design deliver similar or superior performance to Intel’s options and manufacturers support it, in the future the situation could change. Intel is in low times and it is precisely now when it must deal with Qualcomm in laptops and face AMD with its Ryzen on desktops. The Core Ultra 200S have not convinced and it remains to be seen how the Core Ultra 200 for laptops have turned out.