Small but mighty

The battle for next-gen laptops and handhelds.

OPINION | TRADE CHAT The dust has settled on the orgy of silicon, sweat-shop capitalism, and silly AI marketing straplines that was the 2024 Computex show in Taiwan. All that’s left is to decide which was the best new laptop chip announced at the show. AMD’s or Intel’s? What about Qualcomm’s new Arm chip, the Snapdragon X? It may well be a turning point for Arm on the PC, but there’s a long way to go, and much to prove, not least the efficacy of its x86 emulation. In some ways, Intel’s Lunar Lake and AMD’s Strix Point APUs are a bit of a mismatch. The latter has 12 CPU cores to Intel’s eight. It’s not quite a direct comparison, as both chips are hybrid designs with two types of…

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