Chromebooks could get a boost from Snapdragon X Plus chips soon

Chromebooks connected Arm processors are astir to get a large boost arsenic developers hole caller versions of ChromeOS with enactment for Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon chips, reports Chrome Unboxed.

According to a caller developer perpetrate connection posted successful the Chromium task Gerrit codification review, the SoCID for a Qualcomm X1P42100, aka the Snapdragon X Plus, is present being included successful the Chromium repository, which apt means progressive improvement of Chromebooks with the spot is underway.

The Snapdragon X Plus isn’t Qualcomm’s flagship “Elite” processor utilized successful immoderate of the apical Windows 11 Arm laptops, but it is susceptible of the aforesaid 45 TOPS of AI show from its NPU.

Qualcomm’s erstwhile Arm-powered Chromebooks haven’t precisely been powerhouses. The 2021 Acer Chromebook Spin 513 that we’ve tested has large artillery life, but a precise dilatory Snapdragon 7c spot powers it. And though the 7c Gen 2 mentation was faster successful devices similar the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3, Qualcomm ended up not bringing the Gen 3 to Chromebooks. That near Chromebooks with spot options from MediaTek and Intel, the second of which hasn’t been known for fantabulous artillery life.