It's not a new market for Qualcomm. They shipped three generations of Snapdragon 8cx chips for laptops, along with various other SoCs intended for Windows-based laptops and tablets. What's new here is that they now have a CPU core that allows them to actually compete with mainstream Intel and AMD laptop CPUs, so they scored a lot more design wins than their earlier SoCs.
Apart from the CPU cores, the rest of the Snapdragon X Elite chips seem to be IP blocks from outdated generations of Qualcomm's phone SoCs, so the Oryon CPU cores are the most interesting part of the SoC by far.
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It's not a new market for Qualcomm. They shipped three generations of Snapdragon 8cx chips for laptops, along with various other SoCs intended for Windows-based laptops and tablets. What's new here is that they now have a CPU core that allows them to actually compete with mainstream Intel and AMD laptop CPUs, so they scored a lot more design wins than their earlier SoCs.
Apart from the CPU cores, the rest of the Snapdragon X Elite chips seem to be IP blocks from outdated generations of Qualcomm's phone SoCs, so the Oryon CPU cores are the most interesting part of the SoC by far.