20 Qualcomm laptops at launch

Impressive. Asus, Dell, Acer, Microsoft, Lenovo, Samsung and HP all represented. I remember what a feat it was for AMD to crack meaningfully into laptops decades ago with the Athlon XPs…

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Yes, it’s impressive. A superficial look at the new Surface laptops from “Windows Central”:

And there’s also this about the Apple M4 being their first Armv9 based chip. With SME2 appearing in Armv9 but not Armv8. From “Gary Explains” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3V54jKooyQ

With the Snapdragon X performing on par or even better than the M4s in the multithreaded Geekbench 6 test (though on an iPad Pro not a Macbook):

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