Following a couple of recent leaks, today Qualcomm has taken the wraps off the Snapdragon X Plus platform for laptops. This is a step down from the Snapdragon X Elite, featuring a 10-core Oryon CPU clocked at up to 3.4 GHz (vs. 12-core in the Elite) and up to 64GB of RAM with 135 GB/s bandwidth.
The X Plus does however have a 45 TOPS NPU, which Qualcomm bills as the world’s fastest NPU for laptops. The X Plus is expected to deliver “exceptional performance, long battery life, and industry-leading on-device AI capabilities”.
Speaking of which, Qualcomm demonstrated code generation in…
