It didn’t take off: Snapdragon X Elite takes 0.8% of PC market, only 720,000 laptops sold in Q3
It seems that Copilot PC+ laptops with Snapdragon X Elite are not very popular. Poor compatibility, mediocre performance, high price — what could go wrong?
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite — smartphone processor known as 8 Gen 4
Today, Qualcomm officially unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor based on the 3 nm process technology. The flagship chip for smartphones previously called Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
Qualcomm will release Snapdragon processors for desktops — they will be announced this fall
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has confirmed Snapdragon processors for desktops. They will be presented at the company’s next conference.
«PCs with a price of $700»: Qualcomm CEO announces cheaper Copilot+ PC laptops with Snapdragon X
Now Microsoft Surface Laptop for $999 — the cheapest Copilot+ PC on the Snapdragon X Plus processor. According to Qualcomm, in 2025, such laptops will cost from $700.
No one needs artificial intelligence — Copilot+ PC is bought for another reason
Microsoft and Qualcomm together with partners recently released Copilot+ PC laptops with AI features that are supposed to be a game changer. However, Bloomberg reports that most owners bought these laptops because of long battery lifeand not through AI.
Snapdragon computers were advertised by an actor who starred in an Apple Mac commercial and then — PCs for Intel
In the mid-2000s, Apple launched a long series of popular commercials in which actor John Hodgman played «PC» and Justin Long — «Mac». The videos claimed that Windows-based PCs were bad and Apple Macs — were good. However in 2021, Long appeared in a series of Intel videosto demonstrate the superiority of the company’s laptops over…
Windows 11 Recall works even without NPU — the program was launched on an old Snapdragon 7c+, x86-x64 processors are not yet available
An enthusiast found out that the new Recall program in Windows 11 does not require a neural processing unit (NPU) in the processor. Recall functions are recording everything that happens on your PC to recover or search for data. However, the program did not work on a conventional x86-x64 processor, but on a PC with an older Snapdragon 7c+…
Dell’s plans for 2027 leaked: Intel Panther Lake and Nova Lake processors, three generations of Snapdragon X, NVIDIA RTX 50xx and 60xx graphics cards
A large leak from Dell contains plans for the laptop manufacturer, as well as Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and AMD. The materials were published by the website VideoCardz. The journalists came across the presentation while searching for information on current Dell XPS laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors. They stumbled upon a 300-page document…
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor will get up to 4.26 GHz to beat Apple A18 — insider
According to insightQualcomm is increasing the clock speed of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 mobile processor to 4.26 GHz. This change will allow the chip to compete with the upcoming A18 and A18 Pro chips for the iPhone, which can also operate at higher frequencies. The frequency race comes amid the release of a productive M4 processor from Apple with…
Not a competitor to Apple and Intel: Qualcomm is cheating with Snapdragon X chip tests — insiders say manufacturers didn’t achieve the results
Qualcomm accused of misleading test results of new processors for Windows laptops Snapdragon X Elite and Plus. These chips are positioned as the first potentially competitive Windows on Arm processors compared to Apple, Intel, and AMD products. However, the website SemiAccurate claims that Qualcomm and its partners did not actually achieve the test…
Journalists were invited to test Snapdragon X Elite — outperforms Intel Core Ultra 7-155H, pulls games
A few weeks ago, journalists were invited to Qualcomm’s headquarters in San Diego to demonstrate the platform Snapdragon X Elite. The company paid for the participants’ travel and accommodation, but did not make any editorial changes. Since the announcement of the Snapdragon X Elite platform at the end of last year, there have been many…
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