Qualcomm is taking things one step at a time. During its first keynote, the chipmaker only teased the new mobile chipsets – the Snapdragon 865 and 765. It doled out details for the two chipsets during the second-day keynote, and well, the third-day keynote address sees Qualcomm talk about Windows on Snapdragon. The chipmaker today announced two new compute platforms — Snapdragon 7c and Snapdragon 8c that now join the existing Snapdragon 8cx compute platform for Always-on, Always-connected PCs.
First up, we have the new Snapdragon 7c compute platform. It’s an octa-core chipset that includes the new Kryo 468 CPU cores and Adreno 618 GPU, which can be found inside the Snapdragon 730 as well. Qualcomm boasts that Snapdragon 7c will boost performance by 25% and offer up to twice the battery life when compared to rival platforms.
Snapdragon 7c compute platform that will enable OEMs to soon bring always-on, always-connected PCs at even affordable prices to the market.
As the name reveals, the Snapdragon 8c is a slightly less powerful version of Snapdragon 8cx from last year. Based on the 7nm architecture, same as Qualcomm’s flagship mobile chipsets, this chipset offers faster CPU cores, a 30% performance boost over Snapdragon 850. It includes the Kryo 490 CPU and Adreno 675 GPU.
In addition, the American chipmaker has upgraded its existing Snapdragon 8cx compute platform to provide “optimized system performance and connected security software” to enterprise users. There’s no word on whether it brings any hardware changes but is now called the Snapdragon 8cx Enterprise compute platform.
