Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 gives Windows 10 a 5G-ready rival to Apple Silicon – SlashGear

Intel may have shown off its newest chips for ultraportable notebooks yesterday, but today Qualcomm is aiming to eclipse that with the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G Compute Platform. The latest iteration of the chip-maker’s high-end ARM architecture for always-connected laptops and 2-in-1s, it promises 5G as standard, along with not just hours but days of battery life.
It was a beguiling idea from the outset, though the actual market of ARM-based notebooks rather than x86 variants using Intel and AM…

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