There is now a THIRD CPU Company. (Snapdragon X Explained)

Learn about Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X chips for Windows laptops. Could they threaten the x86 offerings from AMD and Intel?

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[joshuadelaughter]

Now we just need a 3rd American political party.

[ANeMzero]

"x86 was introduced way back in 1978 as a desktop platform" unlike ARM which was introduced in 1985 as a desktop platform.
ARM wasn't really made for efficiency, at least not in the beginning. It was just a happy accident that Acorn and then later ARM Holdings ran with.

[Robulite]

Ai wastes much power I don't want it in my pc....

[cberge]

Darn, I was really hoping for a a Cyrix comeback.

[Jayandthegames]

Yes, but the Snapdragon processors are locked down to preassembled motherboards as they only come in BGA format.

[ronny]

My hope is in tuxedo to get a 100% Linux compatible notebook ready. Windows is no option. Multiple reasons.

[Michi-goxi]

I'm very happy to see ARM on laptops other than macs


To install GNU/Linux on them. No way I'll use Windows

[notjustforhackers]

Tuxedo has already announced a Linux machine running one of these.

[davidmeier]

us linux users have been daily driving arm stuff for years.

[Iscreamjy]

Software dev, I can only be interested in this once packages start being supported on arm. Every time I look into it, it's all out of date, it'll happen eventually, but we're still not there yet

[ETG]

I'm more interested in getting Linux with one of these rather than Windows

[zyxyuv]

The first thing I want to see here is benchmarks showing how good Snapdragon X is at emulating X86-64.
Can it emulate everything seamlessly with only a marginal performance drop? Or does X86 stuff run at half speed? Or?

[legendgood]

I think it's more than three.

-REC
-Texas instruments
-Fujitsu
-Amazon
-Nividia I guess
-Hitachi
-IBM
-Mediatek
- AND APPLE

[mirage]

without gaming support on arch i will never switch to arm.

[LMacNeill]

I've been running the ARM version of Windows 11 in a Parallels Desktop VM on my M2 Pro MacBook Pro for about 15 months now, and I've had great results thus far. Admittedly, I'm not stressing it -- 90% of the time I'm using it for Microsoft Edge to test websites I write, and for MS SQL Server Studio, but I've run a few other Windows apps on here and had no problems. Haven't tried any games, but that's not what I use this computer for anyway. I have a gaming PC for that. After reading all the negative press on ARM Windows, I've been quite pleasantly surprised at how it just seems to work...

[svsguru]

The return of Cyrix? No? Oh, it's just qualcomm with their lizard cpu.

[RILDIGITAL]

I appreciate the thorough explanation of how Snapdragon X processors work and how they stack up against other players in the market. The AI advantage definitely seems promising.

[theoneyoudontsee]

that's some heavy truth you can trust promoting other lmg youtube channels that will be the place to go for independent reviews you should wait for. unless money is not a problem and you don't have the keys to what ever $100k+ automobile your heart desires, you should wait for the ltt snapdragon X reviews and Dubble check them with gamers nexus snapdragon X reviews if you are driving a Toyota camry and renting your home that's not even a whole house!

[MichaelSidneyTimpson]

Coming to windows PC to you soon: non-upgradable soldered on ram and storage, with only an integrated gpu option.

[arnabkumarkundu]

we now have 4 competitors
1. Apple silicon
2. Snapdragon x
3. Intel
4. AMD