According to reports, the company’s next-generation Arm technology will be included in the release of Windows 12, or whatever Microsoft names it.
The announcement that Qualcomm would be releasing its next-generation Arm SoC for Windows laptops during the month of October 2023 caused a stir. The business claims that its forthcoming X Elite chip will be able to compete with Apple’s highly regarded M-series processors as well as chips manufactured by both Intel and AMD. Additionally, Qualcomm’s X Elite Arm chip is regarded as having the potential to cause a disruption in the x86 mobile business. This will be the first time that Qualcomm will be making a significant push into the laptop market. Concerning the time of the launch, which was one of the most significant questions that surrounded the news, we now know that it will be launched concurrently with the next version of Windows, which will place a significant emphasis on intelligence capabilities.
The most recent earnings call that the firm held included an announcement regarding its plans for the launch of the X Elite. Cristiano Amon, the CEO of Qualcomm, revealed on the call that X Elite will be released at the same time as the next version of Windows, which is not going to be called Windows 12 but is most likely going to be Windows 11 24H2. It has been said that Microsoft is going to put all of its resources on artificial intelligence for the next version of its operating system. The company will be promoting the X Elite’s AI capabilities at launch as the ideal vehicle for the next version of Windows. Amon is quoted as saying that the launch will take place during the back-to-school season, which normally begins in late July. This information comes from Windows Latest website.
Amon made the following statement during the call: “We are tracking to the launch of products with this chipset tied with the next version of Microsoft Windows that has a lot of the Windows AI capabilities.” There are rumors that the future version of Windows would have on-device artificial intelligence as its primary feature, rather than retrieving responses from the cloud. The X Elite is expected to offer speed that is unparalleled in its category. In contrast, the most recent processors from Intel’s Meteor Lake family are rated at a total of 34 TOPS, with their NPU being rated at only 11 TOPS. The built-in neural processing unit (NPU) of this device is rated at 45 TOPS. The newest XDNA Ryzen AI chips from AMD are said to deliver 39 TOPS, while the NPU only offers 16. This indicates that Qualcomm’s chip appears to have a major advantage in the NPU field.
Due to the fact that it is widely regarded as the first genuine threat to AMD and Intel’s x86 domination, the introduction of the X Elite for Windows laptops has the potential to cause a stir in the mobile industry. Apple’s M-series CPUs have achieved the highest efficiency in their class, and Qualcomm’s newest 12-core system-on-chip (SoC) is expected to give the same level of performance for Windows. According to Macrumors, the company has already expressed that the X Elite outperforms both the Apple M3 chip and Intel’s 13th Generation HX chips in the Geekbench benchmark assessment.
As a result of Arm’s performance-per-watt characteristics, its introduction is considered as the first direct threat to Apple in this area. We will find out where it lands in the mobile CPU pecking order in a short amount of time. It remains to be seen whether the next edition of Windows will be compatible with this new hardware that is based on Arm, as this has never been the case in the past. Regardless, the arrival of this new hardware and operating system will signify a paradigm shift for the business, as it will be the first time that the industry implements on-device artificial intelligence and Arm for personal computers. It has been stated that AMD and Nvidia are also working on Arm chips for Windows; but, for the time being, Qualcomm has an exclusive licensing agreement with Microsoft for Windows hardware.