The dust has now settled on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series unveiling event, during which it revealed four chipsets. By the way, it seems that the Surface Pro 10 has already appeared running on Qualcomm’s only official Snapdragon X Plus chipset, codenamed X1P-64-100. Meanwhile, the Surface Laptop 6 appears to be in development with at least the X1E-80-100, the mid-tier variant of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
However, Kamila Wojciechowska claims that Qualcomm plans to offer a second Snapdragon X Plus chipset codenamed X1P-42-100. The Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100) supposedly contains eight Oryon CPU cores, up from six in the However, the X1P-42-100 lacks Oryon efficiency cores, of which the X1P-64-100 has four. Although these specifications suggest that the X1P-42-100 would be more powerful than the X1P-64-100, the former supports fewer PCIe lanes than the latter:
- X1P-42-100 – 4+4 PCIe 4.0 lanes, 2+2 PCIe 3.0 lanes
- X1P-64-100 – 8+4 PCIe 4.0 lanes, 2+2 PCIe 3.0 lanes
Additionally, the X1P-42-100 is said to be limited to 4K/30 FPS encoding and 4K/60 FPS decoding, versus the 64-100. Unfortunately, many other details about the X1P-42-100 remain unknown for now, including its CPU clock speeds and information about its GPU.
On the other hand, Wojciechowska reports that Qualcomm has a server chipset codenamed “SD1” in development. According to the same leaker, SD1 contains 80 Oryon cores in a 9470-pin LGA socket measuring 98.0 x 95.0 mm. Additionally, the SD1 is rumored to use TSMC’s 5nm node (N5P), along with 16 channels of DDR5-5600 RAM, 70 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and support for two chipsets running simultaneously. Wojciechowska also mentions that the SD1 integrates Compute Express Link (CXL) 1.1; However, other details about Qualcomm’s return to server-grade processors are unclear at the moment.
