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Laptops with the Snapdragon X Elite chip will be available…
Qualcomm unveiled its ambitious plan with Snapdragon X Elite chips last October. They have already conquered the chip market for mobile devices, and now they are flirting with the market for desktop and laptop computers, where a much harder nut to crack awaits them (AMD, Intel, Apple).
In October, we wondered when the new chips would hit the market, or when we would be able to see the first devices with Snapdragon X Elite chips. Unexpectedly, we now have an answer, and in addition, another juicy piece of news that Microsoft may not have wanted to reveal yet.
Glavni izvršni direktor družbe Qualcomm Cristiano Amon je med nedavnim sestankom potrdil, da bodo prenosni računalniki s procesorjem Snapdragon X Elite predstavljeni “sredi leta 2024”. Bolj zanimivo pa je dejstvo, da je Amon povedal tudi, da bo predlagana predstavitev sovpadala z “naslednjo različico sistema Windows”, kar bi lahko bil velik namig za okvirni datum izida sistema Windows 12.
Qualcomm je Snapdragon X Elite označil za “najzmogljivejši, najinteligentnejši in najučinkovitejši procesor v svojem razredu za Windows”. Ali je to razlog za nervozo v podjetjih AMD in Intel? Za zdaj ne, saj gre le za izjave razvijalca, ki razumljivo mora napihniti prihod njihovih procesorjev. Obstajajo utemeljeni dvomi, da bi lahko Qualcomm že s prvo generacijo vzel prestol čipovskima gigantoma zadnjih treh desetletij.
Of course, the announcement of this chip came before there was any official word on Apple's MacBook Pro M3 and Intel's Core Ultra chips late last year, so Qualcomm could only confirm that their processors are more powerful than Intel's 13th generation and M2. The company also recently claimed that their 21 % chip is faster than Apple's M3 silicon, which is a very optimistic prediction, and we can't wait to see if this is just empty words or reality.
Ne samo to, Qualcomm je X Elite dodal tudi pogon za umetno inteligenco, ki zmore 75 TOPS (bilijon operacij na sekundo) – to je veliko več kot približno 34 TOPS, ki jih zmore čip Intel Core 7 165H.
Let's go back to the news about the release of a new version of Windows, which will naturally focus on artificial intelligence. It might not even be called Windows 12, but just a refresh of the existing Windows 11. And when is that tentative release date? All signs point to June 2024.
