Qualcomm released the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC chip, designed for platforms such as notebook computers. This chip has as many as four Cortex-X1 super cores, clocked at 3.0GHz, and TDP is about 15W. The report by NotebookCheck got the laptop equipped with this chip, as well as the real object of this chip, showing more detailed parameters.
This notebook is expected to be 13.3 inches, with a red case, printed with the Qualcomm trademark, and an independent fingerprint identification device. As you can see in the picture, the notebook can be connected to an Xbox gamepad for gaming and has multiple Type-C interfaces. Officials said that the chip supports the USB 3.1 protocol and can connect up to two 4K displays.
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Moreover, this notebook is equipped with the Windows 11 operating system. From the task manager, the notebook is equipped with 8GB of memory and the CPU frequency is 3.0 GHz. The load of the processor is very low when it is idle, and the main frequency is as low as 0.72 GHz.
In other respects, it can be seen that Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 supports virtualization technology, L1 cache is 768KB, L2 cache is 6.0MB, and L3 cache is 8.0MB.
The bottom of the chip uses BGA contacts, which need to be soldered on the notebook motherboard. Similar to Intel and AMD, the top of the processor is packaged with a silicon material to facilitate contact with the heat sink. This chip only supports LPDDR4x-4266 memory, not LPDDR5.
Furthermore, Qualcomm said that products such as notebooks equipped with Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 will be released in the first quarter of 2022.
