Earlier this year, we told you about the launch of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X developer's kit and while the mini PC was never intended for home users, we still wanted to get hold of one, if only to see how good an Arm-based gaming machine we could make it. Alas, that's never going to happen now as Qualcomm has decided to "pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely" because it "comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence."
News of the decision was reported by Ars Technica which had, in part, learned of the move via Jeff Geerling, a software developer. Geerling had picked up one of the dev kits in early October but was decidedly less than impressed with it. Inside the sleek little box is a Snapdragon X Elite processor, clocked 100 MHz higher than those used in Copilot+ laptops.
