{"id":1290445,"date":"2018-12-07T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=1290445"},"modified":"2018-12-07T06:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:28:03","slug":"hands-on-with-qualcomms-snapdragon-8cx-windows-10-reference-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2018\/12\/hands-on-with-qualcomms-snapdragon-8cx-windows-10-reference-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Windows 10 reference design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8cx for Windows 10 PCs, which is the first 7nm PC platform. I got to play with one and the chance to try out new native applications such as Firefox and Asphalt 9.<\/b>
\nToday, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8cx, a new Compute Platform that’s built from the ground up for PCs and is meant to go head-to-head with an Intel Core i5. Naturally, I ran into the demo room and picked up the first one that I could get my hands on.
First of all, this thing is fast, but it’s also running software that I can’t get on the Snapdragon 850 devices that I have. For example, Qualcomm also announced native ARM64 Firefox and Asphalt 9 today. Both of them are really fast and responsive, and it’s a noticeable difference in performance from using the emulated versions that are available to the public right now.
Then there were the demos. Qualcomm had a booth set up showing a device that was plugged into two 4K monitors. There was another one showing off voice assistants, and another one for cellular connectivity.
Check out the Snapdragon 8cx reference design below:
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