Qualcomm launches Snapdragon X Plus for Windows PC

After rumors surfaced last week, Qualcomm today announced a new Arm chip, the Snapdragon X Plus, for Windows PC devices.

The Snapdragon X Plus is the secondary chip of the Snapdragon The world’s most powerful NPU for laptops

In terms of the chip’s performance, Qualcomm demoed code creation in Visual Studio Code from Codegen (generate new code instantly with on-device AI), created songs in Audacity using Riffusion AI on-device to create new songs from text or existing songs. Live music and subtitles in OBS Studio, automatically translating speech from 100 languages ​​into 100 more. These demonstrations are a demonstration of the efficiency of AI processing in particular.

Qualcomm has compared chips with an unspecified model and found that the Snapdragon Limited to 60Hz, supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity, high-end camera ISP and supports Lossless Audio as well.

It is expected that we will see the first devices using the Snapdragon X Plus chip launch in the middle of this year.