Snapdragon 8cx is Qualcomm's Most Powerful Processor Ever

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor announced

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is officially here to ability the flagship smartphones side by side yr, however, the chipmaker is making a major step into the PC market with the launch of its purpose-congenital 'Snapdragon 8cx' compute platform for always-on Windows x laptops and convertibles.

Qualcomm lifted the veil of its nearly powerful processor on the final day of their ongoing Snapdragon Tech Height 2018 conference in Hawaii. The company farther continues to tout thatSnapdragon 8cx is the 'world'southward first 7nm PC platform' and is the effect of the company's Snapdragon on Windows initiative.

Existence a 7nm processor, just like the Snapdragon 855 that was unveiled a couple of days ago, you must think that information technology's the aforementioned chipset, that has been optimized to be uniform with Windows ten for ARM. However, that's not the case here and nosotros now see Qualcomm aggressively gunning for Intel's PC market with a defended PC chipset. It has made the most powerful CPU and GPU philharmonic in the company'due south history.

The newly appear Snapdragon 8cx compute platform is also an octa-core processor, pretty similar to the Snapdragon 855, but it's backed by the company's fastest Kryo 495 CPU to date. There's also the Qualcomm Adreno 680 GPU on lath and the chip maker says information technology'due south their most powerful graphics chip.

It's been built on 64-chip CPU architecture, has a full of 10MB cache, and supports up to 16GB of RAM and NVMe and UFS3.0 storage. Information technology includes a ton of the chipmaker's latest technologies, including the Hexagon 685 DSP, 4th-gen Qualcomm AI engine, dual 14-scrap Spectra 390 ISPs, and a lot more.

The Snapdragon X24 LTE modem from the Snapdragon 855, which enables 5G support, also comes in tow with the Snapdragon 8cx for always-on and continued Windows 10 laptops and two-in-one convertibles. Qualcomm promises speeds of up to two Gigabits via this modem, forth with the hope of a longer bombardment life.

Speaking of the Snapdragon 8cx compute platform, Alex Katouzian, senior VP and GM of mobile for Qualcomm Technologies in an official press statement said, "With performance and battery life as our design tenets, we're bringing 7nm innovations to the PC infinite, allowing for smartphone-like capabilities to transform the computing experience"

Further, Snapdragon 8cx is besides the company's beginning chipset to bringQualcomm's Quick Charge four+ engineering science to Windows 10 PCs. There'southward also the company's Aqstic audio engineering integrated into this processor as well, which brings forth a host of advanced sound codecs and voice software technologies – enabling multi-vocalization assistant back up.

This uber-powerful Snapdragon 8cx processor too packs in back up for 2d-gen USB Type-C 3.1 and third-generation PCI-Due east that tin assist connect up to 2 4K monitors. The chipmaker hasn't named whatsoever partners correct now just assures that they are on board and currently testing the Snapdragon 8cx compute platform.

If you are planning to get an always-on, always-connected Windows 10 PC powered by Qualcomm processors, well, you can only await them to brainstorm shipping in commercial devices in Q3 2019.

And so, are you excited for new Snapdragon on Windows for ARM laptops? Practice you think the Snapdragon 8cx can give Intel's chipsets a run for their money? Let us know down in the comments section.