Qualcomm on Tuesday gave details about a chip for Microsoft Windows-based laptops that it claims will be faster at some tasks than Apple's chips for Mac computers.
Qualcomm executives said that the company's new Snapdragon Elite X chip will be available in laptops starting next year and has been redesigned to better handle artificial intelligence tasks like summarizing emails, writing text and generating images.
Qualcomm will be the first to market with a chip to challenge Apple, whose laptop and desktop computers have more than doubled their market share since the iPhone maker introduced custom-designed chips in 2020. The X Elite chip will be the San Diego, California firm's first to feature completely custom computing cores designed by a team of ex-Apple engineers it acquired for $1.4 billion in 2021.
"These models can respond faster than what you and I can read," Katouzian said."No one else in the world can do that" on a laptop, Katouzian added.