Qualcomm has presented the Snapdragon X2 Elite processors, the second generation of the first viable version to feed the Windows ecosystem about ARM that has been trying to consolidate in the market for more than a decade. No one escapes that the objectives are Compete with Apple Mac and at the same time offer an alternative to the classic PCs with Intel or AMD CPUS.
Qualcomm is celebrating its annual conference and as we expected it has arrived with Great adsas the presentation of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for mobile devices whose main features we already move forward, the arrival of 6g earlier than expected or an interesting association with Google that deserves a separate chapter. Despite this, its new PC processors have been the star of the Snapdragon Summit presentations for what you can assume for the personal computers market.
Snapdragon x2 elite, performance, AI and more
The American semiconductor firm has not fallen short to promote its new platform by ensuring that these are processors “Faster and faster for Windows PCs” Never created. We will have to see what Intel and AMD think that they continue to hold the X86 architecture at the head of the market.
Snapdragon X2 Elite will be marketed in two versions (Standard and extreme) and will be used to motorize mainly high -end portables and tabletsalthough they could also be installed in Aios or Mini-PCs. They will be manufactured in technological processes of 3 Nm under the well -known SOC design (system in a single chip), which will include CPUS ORYON, Integrated Adreno graphics, Hexagon Neuronal Processing Unit, memory and more circuits. The company ensures that the new line is 75% faster than its predecessor with the same energy consumption, an energy efficiency that has always been able to presume processors with ARM architecture.
The key to these integrated will be the CPUs Oryon Third generation that include and that for the occasion increase in the number of their nuclei and also in their work frequency. And not little since the variants ‘Extreme’ will equip 18 cores, 12 of them high performance and two of them (new Oryon Prime nuclei) frequently up to 5 GHz, the first time we see these numbers in chips ARM.
Qualcomm has also made changes in the architecture of the integrated adreno GPU and at its frequency of up to 1.85 GHz, although it is not the most relevant of these integrated. Despite graphic improvements, we do not believe that anyone will Buy them thinking of sections as games unable to work with external dedicated graphics. In any case, welcome progress for casual game.
Yes there are greater novelties for the Acceleration of artificial intelligence taskswith a new NPU Hexagon that promises 80 yield tops (37 percent more than the previous generation) and with a 16 percent improvement in energy consumption. Qualcomm says that this neuronal processing unit is “The fastest of those created for laptops”. More relevant changes come from the increase in cache memory (up to 53 mbytes) and the announcement of a battery duration of “several days”.
These snapdragon x2 elite look good specially designed for laptops, with launch planned for half of 2026. If the hardware seems well covered, Another of the keys lies in Microsoft And what I can do with Windows. If you can create a version that runs in the same way in ARM architecture as it does in X86 and is able to run applications at the same level, the platform will be viable. Otherwise, that Windows about ARM will not be able to compete with the Intel or AMD teams and with the Apple MACs, the only ones who have so far demonstrated the capacity of ARM in personal computers.
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