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While Apple’s shift from Intel’s x86 processors to its own custom series of ARM-based “Apple Silicon” chipsets might have gotten a bulk of the attention, the Cupertino company certainly wasn’t the first to attempt to create ARM-powered PCs. Qualcomm actually beat Apple to the punch with the Snapdragon 850 back in 2018.
But one of the reasons it never got the same attention Apple did was because for the most part, it was underpowered compared to x86 offerings from companies such as Intel, but the company is hoping to change that perception with the launch of its newest chipset for Windows, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite.
One of the reasons to be excited for the Snapdragon X Elite over Qualcomm’s previous releases is that this chipset is apparently built using Nuvia’s technology, a company that Qualcomm had acquired back in 2021.
