More and more companies are creating components for smaller form factors, known as SFF, which allow users to have high-performance devices while taking up as little space as possible. From Qualcomm They had an idea that many users supported from the beginning, launching a mini PC that incorporated a processor Snapdragon X Elitebut apparently, this model did not meet the company’s quality standards, so they have decided to withdraw the idea by refunding the money to those who had pre-purchased.
The arrival of the Snapdragon X Elite processors has revolutionized a large number of ways of looking at laptops, and the company offers one of the chips with the best energy management that we can find on the market, being the main reason why many people choose to use a CPU of Qualcomm. The brand also planned to export this chip to other formats such as mini PCs, and although they had already gotten to work sending the Snapdragon Dev Kit, they have announced that they will not continue supporting it, and that they will return the money to those who bought it.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
One of the great novelties that Qualcomm had prepared for its new processor that managed to debut successfully in a large number of laptops even though it had a very different architecture from what we are used to was to try to create a platform that would take even more advantage of the power of the chip. .
But trying to suddenly enter such a market is quite complicated, so the company decided to carry out a test showing what a mini PC with the Snapdragon X Elite processor would be like, launching the Snapdragon Dev Kit.
Apparently the computer itself has not met the company’s standards, so now they have decided to withdraw it from the market and stop working on it indefinitely, which does not rule out resuming the project in the future, but currently it is not an option. of their priorities, further indicating that those who received the Snapdragon Dev Kit will receive a full refund and will not have to return it to Qualcomm either:
“At Qualcomm, we are dedicated to pioneering leading technology and delivering world-class experiences to our valued customers. The launch of more than 30 PCs with Snapdragon However, the Developer Kit product as a whole has not met our usual standards of excellence, so we are contacting you to let you know that, unfortunately, we have made the decision to pause this product and support for it, indefinitely.”
Although Qualcomm has canceled the project, the company has a large number of partners who would be willing to create their own mini PC models with this processor, so we would have to know the position of the other brands on this type of computers, since that we could end up seeing a version that is capable of offering us what Qualcomm wanted with this computer.
