Qualcomm has announced that it is bringing its Snapdragon X Elite chips to Googlebooks. Naturally, this doesn’t apply to all Googlebooks, as Acer has already announced its own that’s running an Intel processor. Instead, the chipmaker says two other brands will be the first to bring to market Googlebooks with its Snapdragon X Elite chips.
As the internet search giant previously revealed, the Googlebook is the culmination of “the best of Android, which comes with powerful apps on Google Play and a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence, and ChromeOS, which comes with the world’s most popular browser”. With a more recent announcement, the company says that it’s “built on a shared Android foundation, so your phone and laptop work seamlessly together”. Think of the way an iPhone and a MacBook work together, and this is the Android version of that.
Kedar Kondap, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Compute & Gaming at Qualcomm, said, “Snapdragon X Elite delivers extraordinary performance and efficiency, now paired with support for native Android apps and games for Googlebook users. We are proud to work with Google as well as global OEMs, starting with Dell and HP, to enable the cutting-edge capabilities of this new category of laptops powered by Snapdragon and designed for cross-device continuity for users of Android phones powered by Snapdragon”.
It is worth noting that these Googlebooks with Qualcomm chips are using the first-generation Snapdragon X Elite, and not the newer X2 Elite. Officially unveiled almost exactly a year ago, these mostly belong to Windows ARM laptops for now. The two companies may have chosen the older chip for cost reasons, but according to XDA, the Snapdragon-powered Googlebooks are far from the most affordable of the initial lot. Another potential reason is heat, as the newer chip produces more of that on account of also being more powerful.
