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17 hours agoIntel's cheaper Panther Lake chips are for budget-friendly laptops
Intel introduces the Core Series 3 laptop processors, offering budget-friendly options with fewer specifications than the Core Ultra Series 3.
Qualcomm is trying to become a major player in the laptop processor space. Its Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips, along with a concerted effort to improve the Windows on Arm software ecosystem, have made it a credible alternative to Intel and AMD, although it's still stuck at below 1% market share. On Monday at CES in Las Vegas, the company showed the next step in this strategy: the next-gen Snapdragon X2 Plus chips, which are targeted at budget and mainstream systems.