Qualcomm Announces High-Performance PC SOCs to Be Released in 2023, Competing with Apple and Intel

For some years now, Microsoft and Qualcomm have sought to popularize the use of ARM in portable PCs, although at the moment the limited availability of native applications for ARM and the low power of these processors does not quite convince users, who continue to choose x86 processors already be it from AMD or Intel when choosing your laptop. To change this, Qualcomm announced that it is preparing a new line of high-performance SOCs for PCs that will arrive in 2023, with which it will seek to compete against Apple and Intel.

This announcement from Qualcomm was something that could already be seen coming after its recent acquisition of the company Nuvia, an expert in chip design to be founded by leaders of the Apple and Google design teams. Having the Nuvia team will help design new high-performance, high-efficiency ARM cores in a manner similar to what Apple has done, seeking to offer a competitive proposition that delivers the performance that the most demanding users are looking for with a longer battery life than a x86 proposal.

In addition to the acquisition of Nuvia, Qualcomm was also recruiting multiple talents from companies such as AMD, particularly from the Radeon division in search of improving the graphics performance of its chips, another key element to compete especially against Apple. Remember that the recent M1 Max has a high-power integrated GPU that can reach the performance of the RTX 3080 Mobile in certain tests, with a 100W lower consumption, so improving the graphic aspect will also be essential to compete against the company of the Apple.

Qualcomm expects to have these SOCs ready in August 2022, to begin distributing them to its different partners and for them to begin working on their designs with the goal that the first laptops that use them reach the market in the first half of 2023. From this Thus, we will have to wait about a year and a half to see what Qualcomm surprises us with, and what is the result of all these acquisitions and hires.

What do you think about this idea from Qualcomm? Do you think they will succeed in taking away a considerable percentage of the PC market from x86 or will they still occupy only a small part?

Source: Tom’s Hardware