At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Southeast Asia Media Summit in Singapore, Kedar Kondap, Qualcomm’s Senior VP and General Manager of Compute and Gaming, announced exciting news about the Snapdragon X Series processors. These processors are designed to handle AI tasks seamlessly, boosting productivity and creativity for users.
“We are ushering in a new era where AI tasks will happen automatically and seamlessly, enhancing productivity and creativity for all users,” Kondap said.
One of the revelations came from research by Microsoft, which showed that 90% of the time people spend on apps today is on apps that are natively available on Snapdragon X Elite chips. This means most apps people use daily run smoothly and efficiently on these advanced processors.
For the apps that aren’t native yet, Microsoft and Qualcomm have developed an emulation engine called Prism. This engine allows X86 apps to run on the Snapdragon X architecture without sacrificing performance.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series
The Snapdragon X Series, based on ARM architecture, has an NPU that can handle up to 45 trillion operations per second (TOPS). This makes AI task processing faster and more secure, while also extending battery life.
The series includes three tiers: Snapdragon X Elite, X Plus, and the base-level X. These options cater to different user needs and budgets, from high-end creative tasks to everyday productivity.
Qualcomm is also actively working with major brands like ASUS, Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft to promote ARM-based laptops.
These partnerships aim to challenge the dominance of Intel, AMD, and Apple, while highlighting Qualcomm’s commitment to on-device AI processing.
