Microsoft’s recent launch event saw a number of key products updated and new form factors. Notably missing from the presentation, but still part of the updated portfolio, was the Surface Pro X. Microsoft’s own ARM-powered 2-in-1 picked up its first Wi-Fi only model, but otherwise the specifications remained the same.
Simply put, while the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Duo 2 hardware was ready for launch, the new heart that should drive the Surface Pro X2 is still incubating,
That’s not to say the Surface Pro X family did not pick up something substantial. With the general availability of Windows 11, the Pro X benefited from the increased touch functionality added to the operating system. Perhaps more importantly, the all important 64-bit emulation required to open up the vast catalogue of older Intel-targeting Windows apps is now available to all.
The software may be ready, but the next generation of Microsoft’s SQx line of ARM-powered processors are not. Microsoft will want to launch the next Surface Pro X with the next-generation of processors, the presumptively named SQ3.
These will follows up the SQ1 that shipped with the first Pro X hardware in late 2019. Last year saw these Pro devices joined by Pro X machines with the uprated SQ2 chip. That uprating was minimal at best, with Geekbench reporting around a nine percent increase in single core and multi-core benchmarking performance on the CPU, and broadly similar numbers for GPU performance.
It’s not a surprise that the SQ1 and SQ2 models are on sale together, they are essentially the same machine with a small processor step the main difference. That’s not going to be the case with the SQ3, which is expected to offer a much larger leap in performance over the previous generation. Omar Sohail reports:
“...even if the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is not Qualcomm’s greatest chipset for ARM-based notebooks and tablets, the SQ3 based on it appears promising. For one thing, it is said to record a 60 percent performance improvement against the SQ2 in multi-core tests and is considered equal to the Intel Core i7-1160G7, a 10nm chip with four cores and eight thread."
This is the sort of performance leap that would merit the sort of refresh that the Pro 8 and Duo 2 have offered. When
The latest leaks around the Microsoft’s SQ3 are really the latest leaks around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 system on chip, thanks to the partnership between Qualcomm and Microsoft. With this system on chip widely expected to be announced before the year is out, the Microsoft variant cannot be too far behind.
A cool running, instant-on PC, with all day battery life, and LTE support in a lightweight and portable form factor, that matches an equivalent eleventh-generation Intel Core machine? That’s the point where the Surface Pro X2 can really deliver.
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