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While the world waits for Qualcomm’s NUVIA acquisition to bear fruit, the chipset maker will foist another minor upgrade on PC users.

Yesterday, I posted my first impressions of the Elite Folio ahead of my briefing with HP because I knew there would be a lot of interest.

Announced at CES 2021, the HP Elite Folio is a spiritual successor to the HP Spectre Folio that I reviewed in late 2018, but running Windows 10 on ARM.

Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G Compute Platform provides a 50 percent performance boost over last year’s lackluster original version.

I’m currently reviewing two laptops, the AMD-based HP Envy x360 13 and the Snapdragon-based Lenovo Flex 5G. They could not be more different.

Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform, the Lenovo Flex 5G is the world’s first 5G PC, and it promises up to 24 hours of battery life.

The Lenovo Flex 5G is billed as the world’s first 5G laptop, and it is shipping with Windows 10 on ARM on Verizon this week.

Qualcomm expands its line of ARM processors for Always Connected PCs with the new Snapdragon 8c and Snapdragon 7c for budget PCs.

Last year, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8cx chipset for PCs. But the firm is planning a lower-end PC chipset, too.

Microsoft's next HoloLens could be powered by the Snapdragon 850.

It's been a year of highs and lows---OK, mostly lows---for Windows 10 on ARM. But Qualcomm's latest chipset promises to change that.

Qualcomm unveils its next-gen processor platform for Always Connected PCs, introducing major performance leaps.