The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is Qualcomm’s latest Arm-based PC chip. But can it compete against Intel and the Apple M1?
The new Snapdragon PC chips use more modern manufacturing processes, allowing them to achieve big leaps in performance and efficiency. Intel is expected to take the wraps off its long-anticipated Alder Lake mobile processors any day now. This is the first time we’re seeing mainstream x86 processors adopt a hybrid core technology, with discrete performance and efficiency cores. Simply put, Intel hopes to emulate Arm’s big.