Qualcomm has given some clues about the advancement of its Nuvia-core processors for laptops. Initially scheduled for 2023, the arrival of the first processors is slowly slipping towards the end of the year, or even in 2024.
When announcing its results for the start of 2022, Qualcomm was asked about the availability of its Snapdragon processors for laptops equipped with cores from the start-up Nuvia, acquired in 2021. The general manager of Qualcomm , Christiano Amon, replied that the first test copies would be delivered at the end of 2023, specifying that his company continued to work with Microsoft because it will be the first ARM processor supporting 64 bits under Windows.
At the time of the takeover, Qualcomm had announced that the first copies of Snapdragon equipped with the very promising Nuvia cores would be delivered in the second half of 2022. In November 2021, Jim Thompson, technical director of the company, affirmed that Qualcomm would deliver the famous Snapdragons in August 2022 in order to have laptops available in early 2023.
The new generation of Snapdragon is still being pushed back without us knowing the real reasons for it yet. Anyway, even if these new Snapdragons arrived at the end of 2023, Qualcomm would be, so to speak, two years behind Apple and its Apple Silicon M1. For this year, we will therefore have to be content with the Lenovo Thinkpad 13s and the Snapdragon 8CX Gen3, which we hope to be able to offer you a complete test when it is released.