{"id":288780,"date":"2018-12-07T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=288780"},"modified":"2018-12-07T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:44:32","slug":"qualcomm-launches-powerful-pc-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/288780-qualcomm-launches-powerful-pc-processor.html","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm launches powerful PC processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm unveiled its second-ever Windows-compatible chipset, the Snapdragon 8cx, on the third day of its tech summit in Hawaii, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/12\/06\/qualcomm-snapdragon-8cx-pc-arm-extreme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reports Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 8cx will offer significantly more powerful performance than Qualcomm&#8217;s previous PC chipset, the Snapdragon 850.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the 8cx is the Adreno 680 Extreme GPU, which is reportedly twice as fast as the GPU in the Snapdragon 850.<\/p>\n<p>The chipmaker added that the Snapdragon 8cx will also offer better energy efficiency and multiple days worth of battery life.<\/p>\n<p>The Snapdragon 8cx is the first 7nm processor in the computer space, said Qualcomm,\u00a0and is also the first Snapdragon platform to be Windows 10 enterprise-ready.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm also designed the new octa-core Kryo 495 CPU, which will reportedly run Chrome better than the Snapdragon 850 due to its 10MB cache.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier at the summit, Qualcomm released its new 5G smartphone chips, which are expected to power most of the initial 5G phones releasing next year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/288376-qualcomm-unveils-new-chips-for-upcoming-5g-smartphones.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Qualcomm unveils new chips for upcoming 5G smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has unveiled its second-ever Windows-compatible chipset, the Snapdragon 8cx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":288784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51009,3524,56100],"class_list":["post-288780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-7nm","tag-qualcomm","tag-snapdragon-8cx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288796,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288780\/revisions\/288796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}