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Qualcomm promises Snapdragon X PCs will cost as little as $700 next year

Qualcomm has its eye on the budget PC market, too.

Currently, the $999 Microsoft Surface Laptop is the cheapest way to get a Windows machine that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chip, with all the battery life benefits (and caveats) that might entail. “As we look forward to 2025, in addition to new design wins, our X series product roadmap will expand to address PCs with retail prices as low as $700 without compromising NPU performance,” Qualcomm CEO and president Cristiano Amon just said on the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call. Amon says that more PC product announcements are coming at IFA, which begins the first weekend of September, and that he believes Qualcomm will be “one of the top silicon suppliers” for AI PCs going forward.

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