Cheaper Copilot Plus PCs are coming thanks to this new Snapdragon chip
Laptops with these chips won't be much cheaper than current Snapdragon PCs, but they'll be cheaper than the MacBook Air.
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- Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core processor for Windows PCs.
- This is the company’s least capable Snapdragon X processor.
- PCs powered by this chip will be available from $799.
The first Windows computers running Snapdragon X chips were launched back in June, featuring either Snapdragon X Elite or Snapdragon X Plus chipsets. These devices aren’t cheap, starting at ~$900 and higher. Now, Qualcomm has announced a new, less capable Snapdragon X processor aimed at slightly cheaper PCs.
The Snapdragon X Plus 8-core unsurprisingly differs from the standard Snapdragon X Plus chip by having eight CPU cores, while the standard chip has a 10-core CPU. The new chip also has less cache than the vanilla Snapdragon X Plus (30MB versus 42MB) and a weaker GPU (1.7 TFLOPs versus 3.8 TFLOPs). You’re still getting a processor built on a 4nm process, though.
