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Snapdragon X Series at Computex 2024 (with Jim McGregor & Dave Altavilla)

June 11, 2024 • Leonard Lee, Jim McGregor, David Altavilla • Season 6 • Episode 27

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If you were at Computex 2024 in Taipei, you were immersed in AI PC. At the center of this immersion was Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series AI PC processor family which was first unveiled at Snapdragon Summit 2023. With a strong Microsoft Build 2024 tailwind behind them, Qualcomm was the talk of the town arguably upstaging the so-called godfather of AI, Jensen Huang.

Jim McGregor, Founder & Principal Analyst of Tirias Research and Dave Altavilla, Principal Analyst of HotTech Vision And Analysis join Leonard Lee of neXt Curve on this neXt Curve reThink podcast to share their takes and key impressions of Qualcomm's disruptive entry into the AI PC era of computing.

Leonard, Dave, and Jim parse through the highlights that matter in our engagement with Qualcomm at Computex 2024:

Belle of the Computex AI PC Ball: Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series (1:35)
Redefining the PC experience with Snapdragon and Microsoft (4:46)
Setting the benchmark for AI PC (6:10)
The AI PC is not just about hardware and the chip (10:50)
Mobile computing's disruption of PC in the AI PC era (12:00)
The heterogeneity of AI computing and the NPU (14:00)
The high stakes of being the AI PC Belle (17:39)
The AI Engine - a driver for NPU adoption? (18:20)
AI Hub - what is it and why is it important? (20:00)
Accelerating developer community and mindshare (25:10)
Jim says we all have no idea! (28:30)
Qualcomm's legacy of trust & security on device and the AI PC (30:40)
What will it take to convert Apple fanbois to an AI PC (35:30)

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