IMAGE: QUALCOMM JANUARY 2022 PCWorld 19Qualcomm prophesies 2023 as the
rebirth of PC Snapdragon chips
Nuvia CPUs and gaming graphics? Qualcomm thinks its future is bright. BY MARK HACHMANQ
ualcomm processors for PCs
enhanced by the company’s
Nuvia design team will sample
in 2022 for devices shipping in
2023, Qualcomm executives said Tuesday.
The company also boldly pledged to offer
Adreno graphics that could compete with
desktop PCs.
At the company’s 2021 investor day in
New York, Dr. James Thompson, chief
technology officer at Qualcomm, offered an
overview of the company’s technology
roadmap in several areas. A key focus,naturally, will be how and when Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon processors will integrate the
Nuvia design team, an Arm CPU developer
that Qualcomm acquired in January (fave.
co/3pWUvUH).
Processor development takes time,
however, and that integration won’t happen
immediately. “They’re pretty far along at this
point,” Thompson said, presumably talking
about the first Snapdragon processors
featuring Nuvia technology. “We’ll be
sampling a product nine months from now, or
something like that.”