Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has caused quite the shake-up in the laptop market, with very competitive performance, fantastic battery life and a dedicated 45 TOPS neural engine for currently evolving AI workloads. I’ve written about Snapdragon X-based laptops and the platform in the past, but in this report, I’m going to delve into my experience living on Lenovo’s new Snapdragon X Elite-powered Yoga Slim 7x laptop, using the machine as my daily driver and travel workhorse.
Read MoreDell has never strayed from Intel Core processors to power its XPS 13 models, so this is a first to be sure, and a bold bet for the Round Rock, Texas company. I’d offer that bet was sound, from what I’ve seen thus far, and I’m impressed with this laptop as a potential daily driver.
Read MoreMicrosoft better defined the hardware requirements and expected experiences from the modern AI-powered PC, and it goes far beyond just a Neural Processing Unit-equipped machine capable of at least 40 TOPS.
Read MoreSnapdragon X Plus is based on the same Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU architectures as the company’s Snapdragon X Elite platform, though this chip sports a 10-core CPU complex versus 12 cores in the higher-end product, and a max multi-core frequency of 3.4GHz with no dual-core boost speeds like some of the X Elite products.
Read MoreQualcomm took the wraps off its FastConnect 7900 integrated WiFi solution, and it's not just AI-enhanced but also highly integrated with a number of industry firsts.
Read MoreThe OnePlus 12 is as close to a no compromise Android flagship phone as it gets currently, and for hundreds less than the competition.
Read MoreSnapdragon X Elite Ushers In All-New Oryon CPU And Amped Adreno GPU Architecture
Read MoreQualcomm recently held an event at which the company discussed numerous Wi-Fi 7 updates and fresh hardware and software innovations. Front and center was a new 10G Fiber Wi-Fi 7 Gateway Platform and an array of software and tools that will enable service providers to usher in what Qualcomm is calling Service Defined Wi-Fi.
Read MoreHigh-End Smartphone Camera Systems Require Massive Processing Power
Read MoreQualcomm was able to get Stable Diffusion running on a hand-held device without internet connectivity, by optimizing and scaling the AI model down to run on more efficient INT8 (8-bit integer) precision operations, rather than the larger, more complex FP32 (32-bit floating point) operations that were used to train the model. The result is that for inference (running the model to accurately create the image and inferring details from text), the Stable Diffusion model was shrunk dramatically, or quantized, to a fraction of its size with little to no degradation in accuracy, but with significantly better performance on a low-power Snapdragon AI accelerator (Qualcomm Hexagon Processor) with much less storage and memory bandwidth required.
Read MoreAt this moment in time, there are a myriad of resolution upscaling technologies available across the console, mobile and PC gaming markets. NVIDIA offers DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), AMD offers FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution), Intel has XeSS (Xe Super Sampling), and there are a number of more basic Integer and Bilinear upscaling solutions out there as well, not to mention simplified scaling tools integrated directly into some game engines.
Read MoreToday’s smartphones also have unmatched computational photography capabilities, thanks to processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile platform, which has a significant amount of silicon resources dedicated specifically for image and video processing.
Read MoreQualcomm just announced some new updates to its processor line-up that target a couple of key market segments. The freshly minted Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 targets top-tier, premium Android devices, while the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 focuses on more mainstream, gaming-centric devices.
Read MoreToday at its annual 5G Summit in San Diego, Qualcomm announced it has achieved a significant milestone in the evolution of 5G wireless network connectivity and the future of wireless broadband services everywhere.
Read MoreThe Nubia RedMagic 7 is powered by Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile platform processor. Despite the device’s killer performance, however, pricing starts at only $629.
Read MoreToday, Qualcomm has allowed independent benchmark test results of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 prototype device to be published, and the early numbers are promising.
Read MoreSnapdragon 8 Gen 1 features significant advancements to virtually every part of the platform.
Read MoreFoxconn’s Industrial Internet division has launched a new AI-enabled machine vision platform called Gloria. Powered by Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 solution, the system is design to support up to 24 high-definition cameras for video analytics applications like traffic analysis, security monitoring and smart retail spaces.
Read MoreSnapdragon 778G 5G is the company’s successor to its popular Snapdragon 765G Mobile Platform, and QCOM is announcing broad industry adoption for the new chipset with Motorola, Xiaomi, OPPO, Honor, Realme and iQOO announced support at launch.
Read MoreIn this paper, we have tested Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Chromebook reference platforms against competing devices equipped with processors from Intel and MediaTek. This data is a first-look at Snapdragon 7c performance since the platform’s launch, and it’s the first time the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c compute platform has been tested in a Chromebook.
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