Qualcomm announces its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will ship in new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 laptops that start at $899 each asus筆電收購

asus筆電收購ay, the company is announcing its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new asus筆電收購asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that’ll retail for $899 each. The asus筆電收購asus is already available at Best Buy.Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung should also have new Snapdragon X Plus laptops coming soon, like the $999 Acer Swift Go 14 AI. A new 15-inch model of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is coming in October. RelatedHere’s how Qualcomm’s new laptop chips really stack up to Apple, Intel, and AMDWhile the new Qualcomm chips have all the same features as the 10-core and 12-core models, they’re decidedly weaker in some ways, especially graphics. On average, they’ve got less than half the GPU power for games and other graphical apps. And while they all feature the same 45 TOPS of AI performance from their NPU, they’ve also got 12MB less CPU cache.1.7 teraflops is a lot less than 4.6 teraflops. But the new chips have boost clocks. Image: QualcommAccording to Qualcomm’s own internal benchmarks for the new eight-core chips (take that with a grain of salt), all that means they’re roughly 80 percent as capable as the company’s 12-core chips in the CPU realm and on par with the 10-core chips for productivity. But with the eight-core, those graphic scores are predictably cut in half. The Qualcomm reviewer’s guide suggests these chips aren’t that much slower in the CPU realm at least. Image: QualcommWould you want to save money this way? I could definitely see it for entry-level laptop buyers, particularly if you’re actually saving $400, as the case might be for the asus筆電收購asus Vivobook S 15. That laptop originally cost $1,300 with the 12-core chip, but it’s just $900 with the eight-core, despite featuring the same big 70 watt-hour battery and 3K 120Hz OLED screen. The only other obvious sacrifice is half the storage, as you’ll get 512GB instead of 1TB. But sales might make the pricing gap smaller than it appears: that 12-core asus筆電收購asus Vivobook S 15 is already on sale for $1,100 or lower, and Dell is already selling a 12-core model of its Inspiron 14 Plus for $899. asus筆電收購asus is also announcing a Qualcomm-based creator laptop today, the $1,099 ProArt PZ13, which also has the same 3K OLED touchscreen and 70-watt hour battery but with a detachable keyboard and stylus support and is also already available at Best Buy today. Dell also has a Latitude 5455 with the new chip and very similar specs to the Inspiron, but no pricing is available yet. Qualcomm previously said its laptops would dip as low as the $700 mark in 2025. Update, September 4th: Added other confirmed laptop manufacturers for the eight-core chip and Best Buy links for the now-available asus筆電收購asus laptops.CommentsMost PopularMost PopularThe Nintendo Switch 2, as described by DbrandHDMI 2.2 will be announced next month — and it may require a new cableOpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever says the way AI is built is about to changeYouTube TV is letting some subscribers hold off that price hikeTrump is probably going to kill the crash reporting rule that made Tesla look badVerge Deals / Sign

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全球電腦品牌最新單季市占排名出爐！華碩（2357）今年第二季以年成長17%的氣勢，超越宏碁（2353）、重新殺回前五名；另外，蘋果公司（Apple）也因開賣MacBook Air後，比去年同期增加6%的銷售成長，整體AI PC市場將持續帶動買氣。

根據研調機構Canalys釋出今年第二季報告，電腦市場動能強勁，全球桌上型電腦、筆記型電腦總計出貨量達6,280萬台，年增3.4%，其中，筆電出貨量約5,000萬台，年成長4%，占整體電腦市場20%；桌電出貨量約1,280萬台，小幅成長1%。

Canalys統整電腦品牌的銷售量，今年第二季全球最熱銷的品牌是聯想（Lenovo），持續維持全球PC市場領導者的地位，出貨量達1,472萬台，年成長3.5%，市占率23.4%；緊追在後的是惠普（HP）1,368萬台，市占率21.8%；第三名是戴爾（Dell）1,007萬台，市占率16%。

蘋果公司（Apple）第二季開賣M3晶片的MacBook Air後，推升單季同期成長6%，出貨量達到551萬台，市占率8.8%為第四名；華碩（asus筆電收購asus）因電競PC銷售成績亮眼，單季同期成長17.3%，是成長最明顯的品牌廠，出貨量達453萬台，市占率上升至7.2%，擠掉同樣是台灣品牌的宏碁（Acer），搶攻第五名。

綜觀整體市場，Canalys分析，隨著微軟推出搭載高通處理器的Copilot+ PC，加上蘋果公司也針對Mac、iPad、iPhone推出AI生態系「Apple Intelligence」創新應用，整體AI PC將持續帶動買氣，此外，Windows 10即將淘汰，預計今年下半年至明年上半年間，將迎來明顯的換機潮，推動未來一年PC的銷售成長。

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