Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Chipset With 45 TOPS AI Performance Launched in India 5l61l to Power Affordable Copilot+ PCs

Asus Zenbook A14, Vivobook 16 will be the first Copilot+ PCs to use the Snapdragon X Us. 1k4r4i

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 24 February 2025 18:48 IST

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Chipset With 45 TOPS AI Performance Launched in India, to Power Affordable Copilot+ PCs

The Snapdragon X chipset offers Wi-Fi 7 connectivity with up to 10Gbps speed i3eh

Highlights

The chipset was first unveiled by Qualcomm at CES 2025
The new 4nm processors feature eight Oryon U cores
The Snapdragon X chipset s up to 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM

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unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025. Similar to the other platforms in the series, it also comes with artificial intelligence (AI) performance with 45 trillion operations per second (TOPS).

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In a press release, Qualcomm India announced the launch of the affordable AI chipset for PCs and laptops. The X1-26-100 model chip features eight Oryon U cores with a max clock speed of up to 3GHz. The 4nm Snapdragon X U is paired with a Qualcomm Adreno GPU with 1.7 tera floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS) that s up to three external displays at 4K/ 60Hz. It also comes with a dedicated Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) with up to 45 TOPS of AI performance.

The Snapdragon X platform s up to 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM, with 135GB/s memory bandwidth. The processor s Windows 11 with the on-device AI features that are added on most Copilot+ PCs. It also offers for UFS 4.0 storage.

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For connectivity, it s 5G and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, including High-Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link . The company claimed that the chipset will offer up to 10Gbps speed. Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite has been added to the platform to lossless audio for high-fidelity music with wireless headphones.

Further, the Snapdragon X chipset s the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) camera along with features such as auto-framing, background blur, and facial authentication. The company also claimed that the chipset has optimised performance to offer battery backup of multiple days.

Notably, the newly launched Snapdragon X processor will first be available with the Asus Zenbook A14 and Vivobook 16 Copilot+ PCs, with a starting price of Rs. 65,990. Qualcomm India highlighted that other OEMs will soon introduce more laptops featuring this chipset.

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