Qualcomm upgrades 5G laptop chips, offers new mobile gaming platform

News Wireless Global 2 DEC 2021
Qualcomm upgrades 5G laptop chips, offers new mobile gaming platform

Qualcomm is continuing its efforts to expand beyond the smartphone market with new chips to drive mobile gaming devices and computers. At the Snapdragon Tech Summit, the company presented the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform and the Snapdragon 8cx and 7c+ Gen 3 Compute Platform processors.

The gaming platform brings together all of the Snapdragon Elite Gaming features to power a new generation of Android-based mobile gaming devices. Razer has released a handheld development kit to show off Qualcomm's chipset, offering a device with a 6.65-inch Oled display, webcam, two mics, four-way speakers and full connectivity. 

The Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 comes with an Adreno GPU to run games at 144 fps with 10-bit HDR and Qualcomm's FastConnect 6900 Mobile Connectivity chip with Wi-Fi 6 and 6E for low latency and fast speeds. It can also support 5G in mmWave and sub-6 GHz bands and comes with Snapdragon Sound technology and AKSys touch controls. Users can tether to an XR viewer using USB-C.

Premium and entry-level laptops with 5G

For the premium laptop market, Qualcomm presented the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, its first 5nm chip for Windows PCs. The company said the advanced production means the Kyro CPU offers much higher performance than the previous generation without any significant increase in power requirements.

Upgrades to the graphics and imaging elements are designed to meet greater demand for gaming and videoconferencing, and the new chip also promises greater AI acceleration than rivals and improved security at the chipset level and over cellular connectivity. It offers a choice of three Qualcomm 5G modems, including the latest X65 with support for up to 10 Gbps. 

The Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 targets more entry-level Windows PCs or Chromebooks running 5G for the first time. The modem delivers up to 3.7 Gbps download speeds over 5G as well as support for Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, while the Qualcomm AI Engine enables AI-accelerated experiences through 6.5 TOPS of performance.

Computers running the new chips are expected to hit the market in the first half of 2022. 

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Mobile

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Qualcomm,  Razer

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Global

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Semiconductors, Launch, Consumer devices, 5G

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