Snapdragon x cpus for affordable pcs set to launch in India on February 24

Snapdragon India on Wednsday Announced that it will only launch new snapdragon x cpus in India. First unveiled at the consumer electronics show (CES) 2025 last month, the chipsets aim to compte with affordable offersings from other companis such as Intel and AMD. Similar to their global counterparts, the snapdragon x cpus are likely to offer support for artificial intelligence (AI) Features, Leveraging a dedicated neural processing unit (npu). The company expects its new platform to power laptops priced under $ 600 (roughly Rs. 51,400) Globally, and a similar strategy also be adopted for the Indian markets.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Cpus India Launch Date, Specifications (Expected)

In a post On X (Formerly Twitter), Snapdragon India Announced that it will launch the snapdragon x platform in the count Pcs for everyone ”, which sugges that The new processors could be targeted towards offering ai performance at an affordable price tag.

This platform is scalable across a wide range of thermal designs and form factors, as per the company.

Similar to their global counterparts, Qualcomm's snapdragon x cpus are expected to be built on a 4 nanometre fabrication process, featuring eight ryon cpu cores with a peak clock speed of use use. This is inferior to the snapdragon x plus and elite variants which have up to 3.4GHz and up to 3.8GHz clock speeds, respectively. Meanwhile, The Qualcomm Adreno GPU offers support for up to three external displays at 4k/ 60Hz.

The chip supports up to 64GB of lpddr5x ram with a 30mb total cache and a 135GB/s Memory bandwidth. The company has equipped it with a hexagon npu which is capable of delivery of 45 trillion operations per second (tops) of ai performance. Devices Powered by the Snapdragon x chips will be officially certified as microsoft copilot+ pcs.

The company claims that its new chipsets offer up to two times longer battery life and up to 163 percent faster performance than Other competing processors. Additional, this platform supports 5G, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4, USB 4 Type-C Connectivity.