Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today expands the leading Snapdragon X Series platform portfolio with Snapdragon® X Plus. This revolutionary chip has a custom-designed Oryon CPU that is up to 37% quicker and 54% more efficient than competitors, making it a game changer in mobile computing. (This assertion is based on certain benchmarks. Furthermore, the X Plus has the world’s fastest laptop AI processor, the Hexagon NPU, making it suitable for AI-powered apps. Overall, the X Plus represents a significant improvement in performance and is ready to shake up the PC industry.
“Snapdragon X Series platforms deliver leading experiences and are positioned to revolutionize the PC industry. Snapdragon X Plus will power AI-Supercharged PCs that enable even more users to excel as radical new AI experiences emerge in this period of rapid development and deployment,”
— said Kedar Kondap, senior vice president and general manager of compute and gaming, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
“By delivering leading CPU performance, AI capabilities, and power efficiency, we are once again pushing the boundaries of what is possible in mobile computing.”
Qualcomm Technologies showcased new AI-optimized apps and services powered by the 45 TOPS NPU during the Snapdragon X Plus launch, including:
- Code generation in Visual Studio Code from Codegen, to assist programmers by generating fresh code instantly with on-device generative AI.
- Music generation in Audacity, using Riffusion on-device AI, to generate new music from prompts or pre-existing music.
- Live captions in OBS Studio, to provide automatic translation of 100 spoken languages into live captions in 100 languages using Whisper on-device, in real-time during live streams.
Beginning in mid-2024, OEMs are expected to put out PCs powered by Snapdragon X Plus as well as Snapdragon X Elite devices.