Snapdragon-powered Honor MagicBook 14 Art laptop begins global rollout

Honor launched its ultra-light MagicBook 14 Art notebook globally in September. Initially released in China with Intel Core Ultra 5 125H and Ultra 7 155H chips, the company later announced a Snapdragon X Elite-powered version during the IFA in Berlin.

Today the laptop with the Arm-based processor is finally going on sale.

Honor called the laptop “the first AI-powered Snapdragon X Elite PC” on the market. It does have some advanced AI capabilities thanks to the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, running generative AI LLM models over 13 billion parameters on-device.

The chip’s prime cores run…