News Qualcomm's First 5nm PC Chip, 8cx Gen 3, Is Coming Next Year

[Admin]

Qualcomm has announced a new flagship system on a chip, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, as well as a new chip for entry-level systems, the 7c+.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

If they can match the Apple M1 Macbook Air's battery life of 16 hours of video playback, graphic below from TechCrunch as TH didn't do a video playback test, just a web browsing test, and if these laptops are priced sub $350 (preferably sub $300) and run unrestricted Windows 11, they'd really put a hurting on Chromebooks. Aside from being able to run the proper Office 365 suite, there's people like me who would love a laptop to use for messengers and such while I'm playing a full screen game as well as a portable, inexpensive laptop to use while I'm traveling. I already have my eye on the Samsung Galaxy Book Go which uses a 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2, but this new chip would blow it out of the water...

Why couldn't we have had these things back when I was in college in the noughties...Having to have 3 batteries to switch between to last all day was expensive, and a pain...

 

[gggplaya]

Technically "PC" stands for personal computer and Apple's M1 is also 5nm and out before this Qualcomm chip. So i'm not sure how Qualcomm can make that claim.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Technically "PC" stands for personal computer and Apple's M1 is also 5nm and out before this Qualcomm chip. So i'm not sure how Qualcomm can make that claim.

Is a Mac a PC? (computerhope.com)

"However, when IBM introduced their first computer in August 1981, model number 5150, the term PC became something more specific. From that point on, the PC became a reference to IBM-compatible computers. Today, when PC is used to talk about a computer, it usually is referring to an IBM-compatible computer. By this definition, a Mac computer is not a PC, as it is not IBM-compatible. "

 

[jakjawagon]

Is a Mac a PC? (computerhope.com)

"However, when IBM introduced their first computer in August 1981, model number 5150, the term PC became something more specific. From that point on, the PC became a reference to IBM-compatible computers. Today, when PC is used to talk about a computer, it usually is referring to an IBM-compatible computer. By this definition, a Mac computer is not a PC, as it is not IBM-compatible. "

I disagree. Prescriptively, the term 'personal computer' predates the IBM PC. Descriptively, very few people talking about PCs these days know or care about the IBM PC.
If a PC strictly has to be IBM-compatible, then modern computers aren't even PCs. Software that ran on the IBM PC absolutely will not run on a modern computer without some sort of emulation.