Qualcomm’s performance miracle? New ARM CPU for PCs in September

Qualcomm has indicated for the first time when the second generation of the Snapdragon-X series is to be presented. The high-base high-end chips currently in development are expected to celebrate their premiere in September 2025.

Qualcomm boss announces ‘surprise’ for September

As Qualcomm boss Cristiano Amon announced in the run-up to the Computex 2025 in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, this year’s Snapdragon Summit 2025 will take place from September 23 to 25. On this date, the “Revolution in the PC processor market” will continue, said Amon. At the Computex last year, the introduction of the Snapdragon X Elite had caused a surprise, after all, nobody expected the mobile phone specialist Qualcomm now offer the strongest performance in the field of Windows laptops, said Amon.

New ‘breakthrough in performance’

In September, Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Hawaii will again provide a surprise and offer an even greater performance jump. Qualcomm will offer a further “breakthrough in terms of performance” if you then present the next chip for PCs, the Qualcomm boss said.

Qualcomm had already indicated that this year you want to present the new “Oryon V3” CPU to fuel the “Snapdragon X2 Elite”. An enormous performance jump was announced beforehand. As before, Qualcomm plans to put on a highly adapted ARM architecture that a team from former Apple CPU developers, which was brought on board as part of the takeover of its startup company Nuvia in 2019.

According to the previous state of knowledge, Qualcomm wants to rely on a much-core design of several clusters of high-end arm cores on custom design based on a busy design of several clusters. The internal model number of the new chips with the code name “Project Glymur” is SC8480XP and there are variants in the works that even be kept to temperature using active liquid cooling and apparently should also be made combatable with external graphics cards.

As part of the introduction of the new Snapdragon chips, which therefore no longer seem to be just intended for laptops, one probably also wants to gain a foothold in the server market. In this context, a new high-end SoC from Qualcomm had recently appeared with the internal model number X2000P, which should come on the package with up to 48 gigabytes of RAM. Qualcomm CEO Amon also announced that server solutions would be presented soon.