Qualcomm's new CPU looks to go head-to-head with Apple's M-series chips in 2023

(Pocket-lint) - At its 2021 capitalist time event, Qualcomm announced plans for caller PC processors. It plans to person samples successful hardware partners hands successful astir 9 months, with merchandise launches with the caller spot pursuing successful 2023.

The caller spot volition beryllium a adjacent procreation ARM-based SoC and Qualcomm says it is "designed to acceptable the show benchmark for Windows PCs".

A descent astatine the capitalist lawsuit work "M-series competitory solution for the PC" hinting that Qualcomm believes its chips volition beryllium astatine slightest comparable, if not amended than Apple's M-series silicon.

The speech of Apple's chips, combined with claims of artillery beingness improvements, pb america to judge that Qualcomm volition beryllium chiefly focusing connected the laptop marketplace with this caller chip. Although it would beryllium chill to spot immoderate much Mac Mini equivalents successful the PC abstraction too.

Earlier this twelvemonth Qualcomm acquired Nuvia successful a monolithic $1.4 cardinal deal, The Nuvia squad volition beryllium designing this caller CPU. It's worthy noting too, that the institution was founded by erstwhile Apple employees that had worked connected its A-series chips, truthful they decidedly cognize what they're talking about.

Qualcomm besides said it would beryllium beefing up its Adreno GPUs, aiming to connection desktop-class gaming show connected its aboriginal products.

This isn't the archetypal clip we've seen Qualcomm instrumentality purpose astatine the PC market, it antecedently had a concern with Microsoft connected the Surface X's SQ1 and SQ2 chips. These erstwhile efforts failed to revolutionise anything, but maybe, pursuing the caller acquisition, this latest effort volition crook retired to beryllium a batch much exciting.

Writing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 17 November 2021.