Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is officially here to power the flagship smartphones next year, however, the chipmaker is making a major stride into the PC market with the launch of its purpose-built ‘Snapdragon 8cx’ compute platform for always-on Windows 10 laptops and convertibles.
It’s been built on 64-bit CPU architecture, has a total of 10MB cache, and supports up to 16GB of RAM and NVMe and UFS3.0 storage. It includes a ton of the chipmaker’s latest technologies, including the Hexagon 685 DSP, 4th-gen Qualcomm AI engine, dual 14-bit Spectra 390 ISPs, and a lot more.
This uber-powerful Snapdragon 8cx processor also packs in support for second-gen USB Type-C 3.1 and third-generation PCI-E that can help connect up to two 4K monitors. The chipmaker hasn’t named any partners right now but assures that they are on board and currently testing the Snapdragon 8cx compute platform.
