Along with the Snapdragon 855 chipset for smartphones, Qualcomm also unveiled a new processor for Windows 10 laptops and PCs on the third day of Qualcomm Summit 2018 in Maui, Hawaii. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx is the American fabless semiconductor company’s newest chipset that’s aimed to Windows 10-running laptops, PCs and hybrid computing devices. It…
Along with the Snapdragon 855 chipset for smartphones, Qualcomm also unveiled a new processor for Windows 10 laptops and PCs on the third day of Qualcomm Summit 2018 in Maui, Hawaii. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx is the American fabless semiconductor company’s newest chipset that’s aimed to Windows 10-running laptops, PCs and hybrid computing devices. It is the successor to the PC version of the Snapdragon 835 and the Snapdragon 850. It supports all versions of Windows 10, including Home, Pro and Enterprise.
The Snapdragon 8cx is the most powerful chipset Qualcomm has ever designed. The 7nm processor features eight 64-bit Kryo 495 CPU cores and Adreno 680 GPU.
The chipset can be used in premium, always-on-always-connected, fan-less laptops and PCs. It also features the latest 4G LTE cellular connectivity features, just like the Snapdragon 855.
The company claims that it can offer multi-gigabit LTE and multi-day battery life to Windows 10 laptops. Let’s have a detailed look at the Snapdragon 8cx in detail.
If you were wondering about Qualcomm’s new naming scheme for laptop processors, let me tell you that ‘c’ stands compute and ‘x’ stands for extreme. It shares many features with the Snapdragon 855, but it’s a physically larger chip with bigger CPU cores and more TDP headroom.
