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Snapdragon X Plus: Qualcomm's new AI chip for laptops to rival Intel’s top processor

Qualcomm reveals its full specs on Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus

Qualcomm made some bold claims that its Snapdragon X Elite processor will beat chips from Apple, Intel, and AMD when it ships in new laptops arriving mid-2024. The Snapdragon X Elite features the same Oryon CPU built on the same 4nm process and even comes with the same Hexagon NPU capable of 45 TOPs for AI tasks like image generation and live-captioning. The specs finally show the core counts and max clock speeds of all the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors, which look fairly competitive with Intel and AMD’s chipset.

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