A long road ahead for Qualcomm to capture 50% of Windows PC market
In three days, the Qualcomm X Series will be on the market for the first month. The first laptops were officially presented at Computex and launched on July 18. Reviewers have had these systems for weeks now, many of whom have tested them extensively during this period.
Qualcomm’s CEO, Cristiano Amon, once said during a question-and-answer session with the press that it is realistic for ARM architecture to capture 50% of the Windows PC market within five years. He even mentioned that some OEMs already want to use ARM for 60% of their PC portfolios. However, these statements are not reflected in reality.
According to PassMark Software, in the last 30 days, ARM-based submissions with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series have accounted for only 0.3% of total benchmark submissions, compared to 99.7% for x86 (Intel/AMD). In total, only 56 submissions were made, which is even much less than the number of review samples sent out.
In the past 30 days, we've seen 22,000 x86 Windows benchmark submissions vs. just 56 ARM Qualcomm Elite (that’s 0.3% of all Windows benchmark submissions). Given Qualcomm CEO's claim that ARM could capture 50% of the Windows PC market in 5 years, there's a long road ahead. pic.twitter.com/eyBRRODQqn
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Perhaps the main reason why Qualcomm’s laptops aren’t more popular is because laptop makers have seemingly focused on the premium market, with prices starting at $1000. For a device that has impressive battery life and relatively good CPU performance but still has issues with many non-ARM software and games, this may be too much to ask for a newcomer in this market.
These figures will be even more interesting if PassMark decides to share how quickly Intel Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200) and AMD Strix Point (Ryzen AI 300) laptops appear in the same benchmark database. All three products are set to launch within a four-month window.
Source: PassMark