Qualcomm to Announce New Snapdragon X Series Chips in September: Report

Qualcomm may announce new Snapdragon X sequence chipsets subsequent month, in response to a report. The chipmaker launched its Snapdragon X sequence processors in April, and at the moment, it’s the solely chipset out there for shopper laptops that meets the specs required for Copilot+ PCs. It’s because the devoted Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) within the chipset is alleged to able to 45 trillion operations per second (TOPS), and Microsoft qualifies laptops with a minimum of 40 TOPS as Copilot+ PC. It isn’t recognized whether or not the brand new X sequence chips will beat the NPU efficiency of the corporate’s current processors.

New Snapdragon X Collection Chipsets May Debut Subsequent Month

At its Snapdragon India occasion held earlier this week, Qualcomm showcased the capabilities of its X sequence chipsets and launched the 5G-enabled Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 cellular platform. In the course of the occasion, Kedar Kondap, Senior Vice President and Basic Supervisor, Compute and Gaming, Qualcomm hinted that extra X sequence chipsets could be introduced in September.

In response to a report by FoneArena, Kondap could be alluding to the upcoming Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 2024 occasion in Berlin, which is a shopper electronics commerce present. The chipmaker might reportedly introduce new variants of the Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite chips. The publication claims that whereas new chip fashions are unlikely, new stock-keeping models (SKUs) of current processors may very well be unveiled.

There are three current SKUs for the Snapdragon X Elite — X1E-78-100, X1E-80-100, and X1E-84-100. Every chip has minor efficiency and effectivity variations, whereas the price of every chip additionally varies. As per the hypothesis, extra SKUs within the Elite and Plus tier could be launched on the Berlin occasion.

Aside from this, the corporate can also be anticipated to announce the brand new Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 cellular platform in its annual occasion in October. Qualcomm has revealed that the chipset will use its in-house Oryon CPU and can characteristic a devoted NPU. An earlier report claimed that the chipset might characteristic a big enchancment within the Adreno 750 GPU’s energy effectivity, however might solely get a single-digit CPU efficiency enhance.