Qualcomm’s laptop processors with cores designed by Nuvia will appear in products in 2023. With the chips Qualcomm aims to offer the most powerful economical processor for Windows PCs with the chips.
Qualcomm will deliver the first samples of processors with Nuvia cores to partners next year, who will then bring the first products with the chips to market in 2023. Qualcomm Cto Jim Thompson reported this during Qualcomm Investor Day 2021. According to him, the goal is to offer the best performing low-power CPU.
So far, Qualcomm has had little success with its Arm chips for laptops. Thompson acknowledged in his presentation that PC chips were a weak point on the roadmap. To change that, Qualcomm took over Nuvia in early 2021, a start-up founded by prominent chip designers who worked at Apple, among others, and were probably partly responsible for the M1 socs.
The technical chief did not give any further details about the chips. However, a slide made it clear that the CPUs will also be used for mobile phones, cars and data centers. He also made it clear that the company’s Adreno GPUs will be more powerful for use in PCs, with the claim being that they will offer more than 15 tflops of processing power. That would make an Adreno more powerful than an RTX 2080 Ti from Nvidia, but Thompson gave no further details about the upcoming GPUs.