On February 1, it was reported that Qualcomm released the Snapdragon X Elite processor based on the self-developed Oryon core for the AI PC market in October last year, and PC products based on this processor will be launched by leading OEMs in the middle of this year.
Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon said at the Q1 2024 earnings conference on Wednesday that the Snapdragon X Elite processor will be launched with the next version of Microsoft's Windows system, which has a large number of Windows AI features. He added: "We're still keeping the same date, which is Windows-driven, and we expect to be ready for the back-to-school season in mid-2024. ”
While Microsoft hasn't made it clear when it plans to launch an AI-centric Windows system, the software giant is not far off with the addition of Copilot to its portfolio. It's worth noting that Microsoft has been providing consulting services to developers since last year to help them port their applications to Arm CPU-based Windows PCs.
Schools in North America and Europe will begin to recover in August or September of this year, and Snapdragon X Elite-equipped PCs need to hit retail shelves at least a few weeks in advance so that parents can consider using these devices, so these devices need to be launched in June or July.
According to the list of partners previously announced by Qualcomm, the first batch of Snapdragon X Elite notebook partner brands include Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Honor, Lenovo, Microsoft, Samsung, and Xiaomi. The ** chain partners of Snapdragon X Elite notebooks, among which the foundries are: Compal, Quanta, Wistron, and Inventec. Display panel companies include: AUO Optoelectronics, BOE.
As Qualcomm's first self-developed Oryon core processor based on the ARM instruction set for AI PC products, Qualcomm has high hopes that it will become a strong product in the PC market competition with Intel, AMD and Apple's M-series. Especially as an ARM instruction set-based processor, Apple's M-series has proven the huge advantages of ARM CPU-based PCs over x86 PCs, not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of battery life, and it is also more advantageous in terms of cost.
According to the official data released by Qualcomm, the performance and energy efficiency of Snapdragon X Elite are better than Intel's 13th generation Core i7 and Apple M2, and Snapdragon X Elite has also added artificial intelligence cores with computing power of 45TOPS, and the AI computing power of the entire Qualcomm AI engine is as high as 75TOPS, which can fully run AI models with up to 13 billion parameters on the device, And supports 30 tokens per second when running a smaller 7 billion parameter large language model. This also gives you an advantage in the performance of generative AI on the device side.
We love that everybody is talking about on-device AI on PCs right now. "We expect Snapdragon X Elite to set the industry benchmark for next-generation AI and Copilot experiences on devices, in addition to delivering leading performance and battery life to next-generation Windows PCs," said Amon. ”
Snapdragon X Elite technology is part of a plan to meet the expanded needs of smartphone makers, and Amon said Qualcomm plans to bring the IP to smartphones, IoT and automotive.
Editor: Xinzhixun-Rogue Sword.