Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips launched in laptops earlier this summer, showing up primarily in high-end machines with premium price tags. At IFA in Berlin, the company is introducing a lower-end version of the Snapdragon X Plus with 8 CPU cores instead of the usual 10 cores on that chip. The company suggests the change will lower prices, with laptops featuring the 8-core version starting at $799.
Crucially for Qualcomm's marketing of the chips, it maintains the same 45 NPU tops as the 10-core X Plus and the higher-end X Elite models, allowing the company to claim similar AI performance.
