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… Earlier this year, Qualcomm even promised one of its new chip platforms would deliver $300 Windows PCs. Those devices could get pricier if device manufacturers pass the brunt of Qualcomm’s price hikes onto their customers. Qualcomm’s far from the only company bumping up its prices. …
… On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced a decade-long deal to supply chips for BMW. Qualcomm EVP, CFO, and COO Akash Palkhiwala also said some OEMs are beginning to use “prior generation” Qualcomm chips in their devices in response to higher component costs.
… Battery life has also been improved by up to 20 percent, and Qualcomm was able to improve cooling as well by boosting power efficiency. Supposedly, while handling heavy workloads, the Reality Elite will remain up to 12 degrees Celsius cooler than Qualcomm’s last-gen XR chips. …
… Qualcomm and partners are assuredly cutting some corners to get to $300. The new platform doesn’t use Qualcomm’s Oryon CPU cores that underpin all its latest Windows laptop and smartphone chips, for instance, but are instead based on the older Kryo cores found in older phones and Chromebooks. …
Snap’s upcoming consumer AR glasses are still set to launch sometime this year, and they’ll be powered by a Snapdragon XR chip from Qualcomm, according to an announcement of a “multi-year strategic agreement” between the companies. …
… Qualcomm also confirmed on Wednesday that it’s working on Googlebooks, but, like Intel, hasn’t given any details about the specific chips the laptops will feature: Something special is coming this fall. …
… It’s also a direct replacement for Qualcomm’s canceled Snapdragon Dev Kit, the miniature Windows on Arm PC that was originally supposed to ship two years ago. The Dev Kit was supposed to help developers port their apps to Windows on Arm, but Qualcomm faced some complications with hardware quality. …
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This is Acer’s Aspire Go 15 AG15-Q31P, a budget laptop built on Qualcomm’s just-announced Snapdragon C platform. Acer didn’t share its price or release date by the time I wrote these words, but Qualcomm says the platform unlocks roughly $300 laptops — despite RAMageddon. …
… This is reportedly because Qualcomm’s latest chips are in short supply, but it reverses Microsoft’s trend of shipping Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to consumers first in recent years. …