From CNET: Apple has shown that the kind of chips that serve as the brains of its iPhones are also powerful enough to handle the company's Mac lineup, and it's stepped things up with the Worldwide Developers Conference debut of its second-generation M2 chip, which powers the newly redesigned MacBook Air. Excitement over mobile chips powering computers is music to the ears of Qualcomm, which is looking to make waves of its own with a next-generation mobile-based chipset it's been developing for performance laptops.
"We're aiming to have performance leadership in PC on the CPU, period," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said in an interview last week.
The only catch: The soonest you'll see one of these ultra-fast processors will be the end of 2023.
Qualcomm, best known for making chips for high-end smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S22 family, has actually been supplying mobile-based processors -- under its Snapdragon line -- far longer than Apple. Microsoft's Surface Pro X, for instance, predated the first M1 computers by nearly a year.
But the company has high hopes for chips designed as part of its acquisition of Nuvia, which specialized in high-performance chips running on the so-called Arm architecture, the type that powers everything from smartphones to iPads. Amon said that the Nuvia chips stand out from its existing crop of Snapdragon processors and will focus on high-performance computations powering CPUs, GPUs and neural processing for artificial intelligence.
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