Snapdragon X Elite: PC Platform Built for Windows 11 AI PC with Industry-Leading 45TOPS NPU

Introduction

Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X Elite platform built for Al PC in October 2023With leading CPU performance, on-device Al inferencing, and up to multiple days of battery life, Snapdragon X Elite is powering PC OEMs to build brand new Windows 11 Al PCs, and support the intelligent and power-intensive tasks, delivering productivity, creativity, and entertainment experiences enabled by on-device Al.

PC Reborn, Setting New Benchmarks for Performance, Efficiency, and intelligent Experiences

Snapdragon X Elite features a series of industry-leading innovations: a) the customized integrated Qualcomm Oryon CPU with 12 high-performance cores running up to 3.8 GHz, with dual-core boost technology to lift the clock speeds up to 4.3 GHz, making it the first CPU core on ARM architecture to hit over 4 GHz; b) outstanding power efficiency, delivering significantly better performance than the X86 competitions at the same power, and match their peak performance at significantly less power consumption; c) integrated Qualcomm Adreno GPU, delivering graphics performance of up to 4.6 TFLOPS with incredible power efficiency.

Snapdragon X Elite adopts the brand-new heterogeneous Qualcomm Al engine. With a NPU of industry leading 45TOPS computing power, Snapdragon X Elite delivers high-performance, low-power Al inferencing, empowering intelligent and personalized user experiences, and bringing groundbreaking Al PC features. Leveraging Qualcomm's extensive mobile technology expertise, Snapdragon X Elite also features up to 10Gbps5G download speeds, Wi-Fi 7 powered by Qualcomm FastConnect 7800, Snapdragon Seamless, 18-bit advanced camera ISP, and Snapdragon Sound, to bring industry leading connectivity, streaming, audio and video experience, enabling productivity and creativity anytime, anywhere.

Supporting the First Wave Windows11 Al PCs Going to Market, Advancing the Al PC Development

The first wave of Windows 11 Al PCs is exclusively supported by Snapdragon X Elite. Windows 11 Al PC is a naw category of Windows PCs that marks the most significant change to the Windows platform in decades, which is making the PO re.born and restoring Windows ecosystem's industry leadership in innovation and performance.

Over 20 Windows 11 Al PCs powered by Snapdragon X series were announced from leading global OEMs including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Samsung, bringing many great Al use cases across productivity, creativity, and entertainment. Snapdragon-powered Al PCs are not only bringing transformation to individual user experience, but also enabling enterprise users to boost productivity, reduce costs and improve quality of service with Al PCs. This will enable Al to be applied across industries and accelerate the enterprise and industry digital transformation.

In the future, Snapdragon X series platforms will power a broad spectrum of Al PCs in all form factors and drive rapid development of the Al PC category. According to Canalys’ latest data, Al PCs are expected to account for 14% of the total PC shipments with 8.8 million units in the second quarter of 2024. As the adoption of NPU continues to expand and the benefits in performance and efficiency become increasingly clear, the value positioning of Al PCs will remain powerful.

Bringing New Opportunities for PC Industry and Empowering Industry Transformation of intelligent Edge Devices

In Canalys’ Now and Next for Al-capable PCs report, it is predicted that the advent of Al PCs is expected to restore the PC market and evolve the user experiences, marking a turning point for the industry. Snapdragon X Elite is designed to power Al PCs for all kinds of users, in all kinds of form factors. Qualcomm collaborates with partners across the entire PC ecosystem to ensure every part of the value chain is optimized for Snapdragon, including working with key ODMs, lBVs, lHVs to help drive innovation, and re-imagine PC form factors, firmware, and software driving the PC industry chain to upgrade together. With best-in-class Al hardware and software technologies and rich Snapdragon X Elite powered devices, Qualcomm is also providing tools and supports to developers to accelerate next generation Al PC application development. Now more and more Windows applications are running native on Snapdragon.

Qualcomm will leverage its comprehensive solution offerings to empower the industry transformation of intelligent edge devices on a global scale, promote the adoption and popularization of generative Al and smart productivity tools such as Al PCs in global economy growth, social life and production. This will broadly empower the industry and enterprise digital transformations and drive the development of new quality productive forces, so as to cultivate new catalysis for global economic growth.