Qualcomm, the corporate maybe greatest recognized for its vary of Snapdragon cell chips, appears set to announce one thing large in only a matter of months. After kitting out a few of the greatest VR headsets for gaming, and even placing out a developer-only mini PC earlier this yr, it might be able to tackle the massive canine of the desktop CPU market.
According to PC World, citing a response from Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on the announcement present for the 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, he talked about what’s subsequent for the chip maker.
He reportedly advised the room: “You’re going to see us with a number of designs on desktops, mini desktops, and finally, you received’t be stunned of us nonetheless eager about high-performance desktop. We are on this journey. As I mentioned, we’re right here to remain.”
Though he did not give any extra specifics about how these high-performance desktop chips will operate, he mentioned to “keep tuned for November”, which is when the subsequent investor convention goes reside.
It’s value noting that, by November, Qualcomm’s desktop CPU chip shall be competing with the AMD Ryzen 9000 chips and Intel’s Arrow Lake. It’s a tricky market crammed with good opponents and, given we do not totally know what these subsequent chips have in retailer for us, it is an much more tough time for Qualcomm to enter that market.
This will not be the primary time this yr Amon has hinted at desktop chips. At a Q&A in the beginning of Computex, he mentioned: “You ought to count on to see Qualcomm in each PC type issue: From desktop to mini PCs, to tablets”. Interestingly, given the excellence between desktop and mini PC, this implies he was probably referring to rather more than the dev construct talked about above.
The 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, which has simply been introduced, is reportedly “Built for AI” and can equipment out Copilot+ PCs across the $700 to $900 vary. The Snapdragon X Elite, which at present powers Asus, Lenovo, Microsoft, and HP laptops is essentially the most highly effective Snapdragon on the market, and one of the best candidate for a possible gaming PC.
That being mentioned, we do not but know the aim of the high-end desktop CPUs and Qualcomm could possibly be leaning much more into the productiveness AI-driven machines that the X Elite appear designed for.
As Amon says, we’ll have to attend till November to seek out out extra.
