Since mid -2024, Qualcomm, the mobile and tablets processors manufacturer, also offers a wide range of processors With the same architecture, ARM, for portable equipment, processors that have a NPU for artificial intelligence tasks locally and that also offer high autonomy.
While it is true that the integrated Adren 200. This could change with the second generation of this range of processors, a range that has already appeared in shipping manifestos, so they could reach the market sooner rather than later.
Second generation of Snapdragon X processors of Qualcomm
With this new range of processors, Qualcomm has earned most portable manufacturers, who offer different models with Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors, thanks to the excellent performance they offer to perform artificial intelligence tasks locally through Neuronal processing unit (NPU) that integrate.
When Qualcomm launched this first generation, its processors were the most powerful in the market in terms of AI performancewhich allowed him to release the certification Copilot+ Microsoft PC. Although Intel and AMD already offered an NPU in their portable processors, their performance was much lower than that offered by Qualcomm in their first generation.
Shortly after the launch of the Snapdragon X range of Qualcomm, Intel and AMD presentation a new generation if you put them at the same height in terms of IA tops. Qualcomm does not want to sleep in the laurels and it has been working on the Second generation of Snapdragon X For laptops, a confirmation that arrived from the hand of the shipping manifestos published by the user Everest of X (Twitter).
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January 27, 2025 • 06:46
Shipping manifests generally point to supply chain circuits not to the product itself. As we can see this filtration, the next range of processor will be called Snapdragon X2. Next to this, “Ultra Premium” appears.
What does it mean? It may be a new generation of processors for the most demanding users than those currently offered in the Snapdragon X Elite range. It may also be information to distract the attention of the media. The information we have today with the second generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors for laptops is very scarce.
If we consider that the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Manufactured in 3 NN, now available in the new Samsung Galaxy S25offers much higher performance to iPhone 16 Pro Maxmaybe, with the second generation, Qualcomm of a blow on the table and overcome widely to the bets that both Intel and AMD plans to launch the market in the coming years.
Nvidia works in an AMD processor with MediaTek
Based on the few rumors that circulate about the second generation Snapdragon X, until the second quarter of 2025, we do not expect to see them in the market. For that same date, it is planned that Nvidia Lance, in collaboration with Mediateka processor with ARM architecture intended to compete directly with Qualcomm. At this rhythm, buying a laptop will be increasingly complicated by the high number of options available.
