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Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Laptop Chips Promise Small Upgrades
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Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Laptop Chips Promise Small Upgrades

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has lofty dreams of making PC chips that will rival Apple’s M-series processors by 2023, but in the meantime, the company is introducing its latest ARM-based laptop chips: the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and Snapdragon 7c+. Designed to support Windows laptops and Chromebooks, Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 should help pave […]

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Apple cements break from Intel with laptops powered by own computer chips
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Apple cements break from Intel with laptops powered by own computer chips

Apple cemented its move away from Intel on Monday, unveiling two new high-end laptop computers powered by its own “Apple Silicon” chips. The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks, which start at $1,999 and $2,499 each, respectively, both feature the “M1 Pro” chip, an iteration on the first Apple-designed M1 processors introduced a year […]

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