Qualcomm 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.