Tech Desk 
Feb 24, 2025
Qualcomm officially launched its new platform, Snapdragon X, in India on Monday. The newly launched processor comes as the fourth model in the Snapdragon X series, adding to the Snapdragon X Elite, X Plus (10-core), and X Plus (octa-core) chipset.
The chipset is aimed at affordable Copilot+ PCs, which was initially launched at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025.
Snapdragon X CPUs released in India
The company officially revealed the release of the affordable cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI)-chipset for PCs and laptops. The X1-26-100 variant chip supports eight Oryon CPU cores with a max clock speed of up to 3GHz.
The 4nm Snapdragon X CPU is coupled with a Qualcomm Adreno GPU with 1.7 tera floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS), supporting up to three external displays at 4K/ 60Hz.
It comes with a Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) with up to 45 TOPS of AI performance.
The Snapdragon X platform consists of a 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM, with a 135GB/s memory network. It supports Windows 11 with the on-device AI feature that is added on several Copilot+ PCs.
For connectivity, it supports 5G and Wi-Fi 7 along with High-Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link support. According to the company, the processor is said to offer up to 10Gbps download speed. The Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite has been integrated into the platform for crystal-clear sound with wireless headphones.
It's worth noting that the recently introduced Snapdragon X platform will first be integrated into the Asus Zenbook A14 and Vivobook 16 Copilot+ PCs, with plans for broader expansion in more laptops in the near future.
