Snapdragon X Series Continues to Redefine the PC Category with a New Platform, Mini Desktop Form Factors, and NPU Powered AI Experiences

[TheLostSwede]

Expanding its AI PC leadership, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the Snapdragon X Platform, the 4th platform to join the Snapdragon X Series compute portfolio, designed to deliver performance, multi-day battery life, and Copilot+ PC experiences for even more users globally.

Redefining the PC Category for Mainstream Devices at $600
Utilizing the power of an 8-core Qualcomm Oryon CPU, Snapdragon X is delivering essential performance to the next-generation of PCs. This platform delivers up to 163% faster performance at ISO-power than our competitors who also require 168% more power at ISO-performance, the Snapdragon X processor balances performance and built-in intelligence with a 45 TOPS NPU that runs Copilot+ PC experiences more efficiently. With an integrated power efficient GPU, Snapdragon X supports dynamic graphics ideal for creating presentations, web browsing, or streaming content. Snapdragon X is an ideal solution for students, freelance workers, and budget-conscious consumers who need a reliable and powerful laptop that can keep up with their busy lives. Devices powered by Snapdragon X are expected to be available from leading OEMs including Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, HP and Lenovo in early 2025 enabling Copilot+ PCs in the $600 range.




A New Era: World's First Mini Desktop PC powered by Snapdragon X Series
Marking a significant milestone in the Snapdragon PC evolution, Snapdragon is redefining compact computing with the world's first mini desktop PC powered by Snapdragon X Series platform. This new form factor ensures there is a design for every consumer, developer, and business need for those who prefer a portable device. Tomorrow, keep an eye on the news for full details.

Windows 11 on Snapdragon Transforms App Performance with More Than 50 NPU powered AI Experiences
Windows 11 on Snapdragon momentum continues to grow with more than 50 NPU powered AI experiences native on Snapdragon. Native apps now include 20 of the most popular VPNs, 50 of the most popular security apps and cloud storage apps, and new music Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) and Virtual Studio Technology (VST) Instruments. Native app development has increased 3x over the past year with companies like Music AI launching the Moises Live app exclusively for Snapdragon and its NPU.

"The Snapdragon X Series portfolio offers the most powerful, intelligent, and power-efficient processors for Windows in their class, making Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon the ultimate choice for users who want a laptop that can do it all," said Alex Katouzian, group general manager, mobile, compute, and XR (MCX), Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "Our ecosystem of partners continues to build on Snapdragon to deliver innovative form factors and premium AI experiences that enable everyday PC users who want a laptop that can keep up with their busy lives."

"The introduction of Snapdragon X further reinforces a new wave of PC innovation and enables the latest technologies to be brought to a broader range of Copilot+ PCs," said Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president, windows + devices, Microsoft. "With Snapdragon X, customers will continue to experience leading performance and battery life, access more innovative AI experiences, and will have more form factors to choose from when deciding what Copilot+ PC best fits their needs."



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[_JP_]

The more this product is pushed, the more I'm able to draw parallels with PowerPC.

 

[Deleted member 190956]

If I ever left the great backwards compatibility of X86 PCs it certainly would not be to move into another shitty Win11 environment. I'm in "Wintel" for the support of older software, and for the great gaming ecosystem. And if I ever left, I'd probably go to macosx (or maybe linux) for a good OS. I wouldn't switch to "windows , only this time for arm" in ten million lives.

The more this product is pushed, the more I'm able to draw parallels with PowerPC.

Yeah, I'm thinking this whole "snapdragon on PCs" project is doomed from the start. Maybe qualcomm should experiment with discrete graphics. Their demise would not be as absolutely certain as in this silliness.

 

[mtosev]

It's nice to see more devices from the 600 price point.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

If I ever left the great backwards compatibility of X86 PCs it certainly would not be to move into another shitty Win11 environment. I'm in "Wintel" for the support of older software, and for the great gaming ecosystem. And if I ever left, I'd probably go to macosx (or maybe linux) for a good OS. I wouldn't switch to "windows , only this time for arm" in ten million lives.


Yeah, I'm thinking this whole "snapdragon on PCs" project is doomed from the start. Maybe qualcomm should experiment with discrete graphics. Their demise would not be as absolutely certain as in this silliness.

Yeah, WOA is feeling like another marketing push. Sure, there might be some upsides, like good battery life, but at the end of the day, I don’t know that the consumer market is all that excited about it. Powerful NPU for copilot? Not sure people care. Why bother with a WOA desktop when there are perfectly good x86 mini PCs that have no software compatibility concerns? SDX laptops accounted for like 0.8% of PC sales since launch, so the best application for this tech is not exactly brimming with excitement.

Maybe NVIDIA entering the space can help, since they can leverage gaming potential, but I just don’t see WOA being any more of a threat to consumer Windows space than Linux.

 

[Carlyle2020hs]

Snapdragon ... that´s the company that canceled its own software developement kit?

Did they remedy that before this marketing investment?

 

[_roman_]

or maybe linux

It's more an issue about mainboard with graphic card slots. And needed kernel modules. I could change hardware quite fast. I did that several times already. Cross compiling is not an issue.

I have qualcom devices. I'm not very happy with qualcom. There is no documentation for those devices. The main point I'm against all those arm stuff, especially mediatek, especially qualcom. The stuff needs to be more openly documented as the existing amd graphic cards or amd ryzen processors from the linux kernel viewpoint and the gnu userspace.

 

[Chrispy_]

Snapdragon will be relevant to Windows/Linux computing when you can just use it and not encounter ANY problems with the architecture emulation.

There are so many places/applications/situations still where the x86-64 emulation fails, be it security, anti-cheat, legacy applications....