Qualcomm Unveils Revolutionary Snapdragon Chips Amid Benchmark Cheating Allegations
April 24, 2024Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X Plus chip for PCs featuring Oryon CPU with 37% faster performance and 54% reduced power consumption.
The company also releases three twelve-core Snapdragon X Elite chips with up to 3.8GHz multithreaded frequency and 4.6 TFLOP integrated GPUs.
Snapdragon X Plus includes the Hexagon NPU, claimed to be the fastest Neural Processing Unit for laptops.
New PCs with these processors are expected to be launched by major OEMs beginning in mid-2024.
Allegations have surfaced accusing Qualcomm of benchmark cheating, casting doubts on the reported performance figures.
The controversy may affect the laptop market and Windows on Arm, with potential further details to emerge at the Microsoft Build developer conference in May.
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The Verge • Apr 24, 2024
Laptops with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus and Elite processors are comingArs Technica • Apr 23, 2024
Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?Gizmodo • Apr 24, 2024
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