CES 2025 – Qualcomm attacks entry-level PCs with its Snapdragon

At CES, the big tech show in Las Vegas, it is mostly customary to be, from one year to the next, in one-upmanship. The products unveiled in 2025 must make us forget those of 2024 by increasing the characteristics. Qualcomm, however, took advantage of the event to unveil its weapon to try to shine in the entry-level ARM PC sector: its new Snapdragon X chip.

A chip for modest PCs

More modest variation of Snapdragon X Elite And Snapdragonthe Snapdragon The objective of this new chip is to power Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs around $600, and therefore to help Qualcomm dig its hole with the general public.

Equipped like the Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100) with eight Oryon cores, the Snapdragon The rest is identical, namely 30 MB of cache, an NPU at 45 TOPS or even an Adreno GPU at 1.7 TFLOPS.

Likewise, beyond being designed for AI and optimized battery consumption compared to traditional PCs, the Snapdragon also there. Our colleagues from Next note, however, that certain elements will be options here, such as 5G, support for 4K HDR streaming or even AV1 coding/decoding.

Imminent availability

If Qualcomm does not give an exact release date for its Snapdragon HP or Lenovo. There is no doubt that laptop PCs, but also mini PCs, will be unveiled during the show or shortly after with availability announced at “early 2025”.