Qualcomm has revolutionised the PC market with Snapdragon X series chips – While AMD and Intel had been busy doing little to moderate general upgrades each year with increases or decreases in TDP, Qualcomm, on the other hand, that had been dominating the smartphone industry, found this revolutionary Snapdragon X series.
Breaking Industry Norms: How Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Series is Redefining Performance Standards?
Yes, ranging from 8 cores to 12 cores, from Snapdragon X Elite to Snapdragon X Plus, the Windows laptop market has never seen this much performance uplift without having to sacrifice on TDP. Most OEMs have launched new laptops with these chips, from Dell to Lenovo, and each of the companies has brought in their flagship notebooks with Snapdragon X chips.
The key problem for Qualcomm would be the architecture being ARM, so the developers will have to work to transition key apps like Blender, Photoshop, and others to work on ARM. The same thing happened when Apple launched their M series, and it took off well in the years to come and made Macs even more popular among users.
For a mobile chip maker like Qualcomm, to enter and show what they are capable of with these Snapdragon X chips means a lot, especially in the Windows laptop market. As we all know, the market has only two choices: Intel and AMD, which are not doing revolutionary as such, so people were transitioning to Mac, and someone had to fix this, and so did the San Diego giant.
Beating the likes of Intel, who by the way launched its latest Core Ultra 200V series processors, Qualcomm-powered laptops have been very well received by the industry so far. Intel also acknowledged that and compared its new chips against Qualcomm and AMD, while AMD is not very vocal about the mobile chip giant’s achievements when asked at its recent Ryzen 9000 series launch event in India.
The San Diego giant will indeed face stiff competition from the likes of AMD, Intel, and of course Apple, however, in its first attempt, Qualcomm has beat the industry norms.
