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(Pocket-lint) - Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 7cx Gen 2, a new platform for lower end Windows 10 laptops and Chrome OS-based Chromebooks.  As with other Qualcomm PC platforms such as the 8cx, the focus is being on 'always connected'. But Qualcomm seems to be focusing more on the lower end rather than the performance segment at present. It's been confirmed that long-time always connected PC (ACPC) partner Lenovo will be launching 7cx Gen 2 devices this year.   Unlike Qualcomm's higher-end PC chips the focus isn't on 5G connectivity, but on 4G LTE instead. The platform does boast oct...

Samsung Exynos with AMD Radeon GPU could come in a laptop first JC Torres - Feb 24, 2021, 7:21pm CST Although Qualcomm and, to some extent, Rockchip, have long been on some laptops running Windows and Chrome OS, respectively, the arrival of the Apple Silicon M1 showed how the market for ARM-based desktops and laptops is still wide open to competition. There are, however, only a few big names that could probably be a good fit for that kind of device and it seems that Samsung’s biggest Exynos gamble will be heading to laptops first instead of smartphones. Given that Samsung...