When you think about the manufacturers behind the best gaming CPUs on the market, you'll picture AMD or Intel before Qualcomm even crosses your mind. However, with computers slowly but surely transitioning away from the 43-year-old x86 instruction set to an ARM-based one, it might not be long before our gaming PCs use Qualcomm processors.
During the company's Investor Day 2021 presentation (which you can watch here), CEO Cristiano Amon said that Qualcomm is "very well positioned to be the preferred platform for PCs, in the inevitable transition to ARM." Qualcomm isn't alone in viewing ARM as the future, with Microsoft's chief product officer, Panos Panay, describing ARM-based PCs as "an amazing opportunity." Meanwhile, Apple has already made the transition from x86 with its own shockingly powerful M1 chips, and Nvidia continues to pursue its purchase of Arm Ltd., an ARM processor design company in the UK.
Despite keeping performance metrics close to its chest, Qualcomm claims that its upcoming Snapdragon CPU that'll appear in next-generation laptops will be "designed to lead in performance and power efficiency", featuring an Adreno GPU with "discrete-like graphics performance."
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