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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus chip competes with Apple Silicon

Ars Technica — April 25, 2024, 02:00 PM UTC

Summary: Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series competes with Apple Silicon. Microsoft plans to launch an Arm-based Surface tablet. The new Snapdragon X Plus chip has 10 CPU cores, a 3.4 GHz base frequency, and a 3.8 TFLOPs GPU. It outperforms Apple's M3 by 10% in multi-threaded performance. All X chips share the Oryon CPU architecture and NPU. They meet Microsoft's "AI PCs" requirements, including 16GB RAM and a Copilot key.

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  1. [4.8]
    Snapdragon X Elite laptops to challenge M3 MacBooks soon (Tom's Guide)
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  2. [4.8]
    Qualcomm's new laptop chips challenge Intel and Apple (Tom's Guide)
    7d
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  3. [2.9]
    Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4: 3nm chip, 4GHz, rivals Apple (Tom's Guide)
    9d
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  4. [5.0]
    Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X Plus chip for laptops (The Business Standard)
    10d

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  5. [3.9]
    Qualcomm introduces powerful Snapdragon X series chips in 2024 (XDA Developers)
    11d
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  6. [3.7]
    Qualcomm launches new laptop chipsets, faces benchmark cheating allegations (India Today)
    12d
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  7. [4.3]
    Qualcomm unveils powerful Snapdragon X Plus laptop processor (The Verge)
    12d
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  8. [4.8]
    Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X Plus chip with impressive specs (TechRadar)
    12d
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