Today Qualcomm announced a new Arm-based compute platform called the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 set to power low-end laptops in the sub-$350 price range. The name is…
The big picture: Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 chipset may not be in the same performance league as the Apple M1, but the devices it’s meant for will be significantly less expensive than Apple’s offerings. Developers will be able to get dev kits, so hopefully more apps will get ported to Windows 10 on ARM in the near future. Today Qualcomm announced a new Arm-based compute platform called the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 set to power low-end laptops in the sub-$350 price range. The name is reminiscent of the USB-C labeling nightmare, but the chipset itself is the perfect way to spur adoption for Chrome OS and Windows 10 on Arm devices. The Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 is essentially an overclocked version of the original chipset released in 2019.
