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Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon X Elite platform, which features the Oryon CPU core and promises to double the performance of some popular AMD and Intel chips. The company aims to make Windows on Arm PCs competitive with conventional X86 PCs when they launch in mid-2024. Qualcomm is also focusing on AI capabilities and is positioning itself as a "connected processing" company. The Snapdragon X Elite platform will offer improved GPU performance and will support 5G capabilities, Wi-Fi 7, and Microsoft Pluton security technology. Qualcomm is working with partners like Lenovo, HP, and Microsoft to bring the Snapdragon X Elite to commercial and consumer PCs. The company is also introducing Snapdragon Seamless, a technology framework that allows devices to work together and share information. [Extracted from the article]

A key focus, naturally, will be how and when Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors will integrate the Nuvia design team, an Arm CPU developer that Qualcomm acquired in January (fave.co/3pWUvUH). DEPARTMENTS Qualcomm processors for PCs enhanced by the company's Nuvia design team will sample in 2022 for devices shipping in 2023, Qualcomm executives said Tuesday. In terms of the Adreno integrated graphics core onboard the Snapdragon chips, Qualcomm performs somewhat better against the competition than its CPUs at present - somewhere between an 8th-gen and a 10th-gen Intel Core processor, when measured by the 3DMark "Night Raid" benchmark. [Extracted from the article]

Other factors, most notably US government sanctions, seriously impacted the market shares of China-based companies, with Huawei-backed HiSilicon seeing an 81% year-on-year revenue drop between 2020 and 2021, and the Chinese semiconductor sector as a whole declining from 6.7% of total market share to 6.5%. For the first time since 2018, the biggest-selling semiconductor vendor in the world was not Intel, which lost the top spot to Samsung in 2021, per a report released today by Gartner Research. [Extracted from the article]