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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus: Specs, release date, benchmarks, and more
By Andrew E. Freedman published
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors are coming in mid-2024 to try to rejuvenate Windows 11 on Arm.
Qualcomm teases Snapdragon X with no mention of Elite — news of second chip could be coming on April 24
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
With certain notebooks ready to be showcased by respective OEMs, Qualcomm has another announcement in the pipeline for April 24.
Snapdragon X Elite beats AMD and Intel flagship mobile CPUs in Geekbench 6
By Aaron Klotz published
The Snapdragon X Elite has show up in Geekbench 6, and it's beating the top mobile CPUs from AMD and Intel. It's another impressive result for Qualcomm's new ARM laptop CPU.
Google releases Chrome for Windows on Arm ahead of Snapdragon X Elite launch
By Andrew E. Freedman published
Google has finally released an Arm64 version of Google Chrome, making a native version of the browser available ahead of the launch of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors.
China filed 25% more patents than the U.S. in 2023 — heavily sanctioned Huawei led all companies
By Anton Shilov published
Huawei and China led WIPO's patent filers list in 2023 as they accelerated technology development.
Qualcomm fires early NPU shots at Intel
By Mark Tyson published
Qualcomm has published a short video which it says shows a Snapdragon X Elite laptop can outpace an Intel Core Ultra 7 laptop by up to 10X in AI workloads.
Early Snapdragon X Elite benchmark shows Arm CPU is faster than AMD's top-end mobile APU
By Matthew Connatser published
A purported pre-launch Geekbench 6 test of the Snapdragon X Elite indicates the chip is faster than AMD's current-gen Ryzen 9 7940HS.
Qualcomm reveals 'Sound of Snapdragon' audio logo — similar to Intel's Jingle, Netflix's 'ta-dum'
By Mark Tyson published
The firm explains why it has decided to make a sonic logo now.
Qualcomm earnings call suggests Apple will again extend 5G modem license, to 2027
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Due to several setbacks in its original plans to introduce its own modem SoC, Apple decided to extend its agreement with Qualcomm, extending its current patent license agreement until 2027.
Graphics card flaw enables data theft in AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm chips by exploiting GPU memory
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
A research group found a way to extract user data from the graphics chip's accompanying memory chips as it contains residual data even after completing an executable task.
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