#Snapdragon X features

Qualcomm teased an upcoming Snapdragon X chip made for budget-friendly Windows-powered devices during their Investor Day event. At the moment, news outlets have only referred to this as Snapdragon X. At the moment, Qualcomm offers PCs with the Snapdragon X Elite with a 12-core CPU. There’s also the Snapdragon X Plus, available with either an 8 or 10-core CPU. The most notable thing announced from the event is that Qualcomm will be including their NPU for the base Snapdragon X. We expect the news on the Snapdragon X by next year’s CES event. Qualcomm is going in for the kill as the company announced two new powerful additions to their 64-bit mobile chip lineup, namely the octa-core Snapdragon 810 and hexa-core Snapdragon 808. Of the two, the Snapdragon 810 sports the better feature set consisting of four Cortex-A53 processors which handles the mundane tasks and another set of Cortex-A57 chips which takes care of the resource-heavy apps. Read more in our articles including "Qualcomm teases Snapdragon X chip for budget Windows devices" and "Qualcomm unveils 64-bit Snapdragon 810 and 808".