Qualcomm is brilliant at designing chipsets, not so much naming them. At the end of 2018 it introduced the Snapdragon 8cx, a chipset designed for Windows on ARM devices. It has since launched more “c” devices: higher performance ones get the “cx” suffix, mid-range devices get just “c”. Now the company has rethought the brand and decided to change it to Snapdragon X Series.
This comes after “extensive analysis” and feedback from consumers who thought the “c” names were too easy to confuse with Android-related Snapdragon chips. Among the many benefits of the new branding, Qualcomm points out that “the X identifier distinguishes our PC platforms from other Snapdragon product categories.”
What about your modems, Qualcomm? They are also called Snapdragon X, such as the Snapdragon X75 and the X72 from February. Alright. At least the company promises a “clear, simplified tier structure that helps users navigate our platform’s features from mainstream to premium,” which is a common complaint for both PC processors, GPUs and mobile chipsets .
This rebranding is preparation for the launch of the new Oryon-based chips and will mark a clean break between Snapdragons that use only ARM-designed CPU cores and Snapdragons with Qualcomm’s internal core. Again, this is for the Windows on ARM branch of the family, it’s unclear if and when Oryon will be featured on phones.
The latest additions to the “c” family are the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and 7c+ Gen 3, which were unveiled in December 2021. There have been several rumors about the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4, although we now know that won’t be its name ( “Snapdragon X8”, perhaps?).
Expect to see the first devices powered by Snapdragon X Series chips in 2024. There will be different tiers ranging from 4-core CPUs up to 12-core CPUs.
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