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Snapdragon X Elite Die Shot Shows A Core Area Of 169.6mm², With The Entire CPU Cluster 78 Percent Larger Than Apple’s M4

Qualcomm officially unveiled the Snapdragon X Elite in October last year, materializing a worthy Apple Silicon competitor that would eventually power a slew of Windows-powered notebooks. Fast forward to September 2024, and Intel and AMD have introduced their offerings that duke it out with the latest silicon on a ‘performance per watt’ basis. It has been nearly a year since Qualcomm’s announcement, and there has been no die shot examining the various clusters of the SoC until now. The Snapdragon X Elite gets compared with the M4, showing that it is physically larger, with several other differences, as you will […]