Qualcomm is facing controversy about its benchmarking claims for the new Snapdragon X series of processors.
One article claims that Qualcomm is “cheating” by essentially fudging the results to make it seem like the chips are more powerful than they’ll actually be for consumers.
Qualcomm hasn’t been entirely transparent with its testing methods, leaving few definitive answers on what’s accurate and what’s not.
Yesterday, Qualcomm officially unveiled the new Snapdragon X Plus chipset. Designed for Windows on Arm laptops, the Snapdragon X Plus (and its more powerful sibling, the Snapdragon X Elite) is designed to bring to Windows users what macOS users have enjoyed since the original launch of Apple’s M-series chips: powerful, fan-less laptops with crazy-long battery life.
If you are just catching up on this, I highly recommend watching the video embedded above. I give a lot of context to the Snapdragon X series and how it might change the landscape for Windows laptops.
