Microsoft arms Surface Pro 9 with Qualcomm SQ3, 12th-gen Intel chips
Microsoft put a coat of polish on its Surface line this week, including its third-generation tablet powered by an Arm-based CPU.showed off
The launch also marks the end of Microsoft’s Arm-powered Surface Pro X as a distinct product. Instead, Redmond’s ninth-gen Surface Pro can be had with either an x86 Intel 12th-gen Core or Evo processor, or a 5G-equipped Arm-compatible SQ3 system-on-chip . Microsoft offered little detail on its Arm-based SQ3 chip, apart from talking up its neural processing unit , which the Windows giant showed off accelerating real-time noise reduction, AI upscaling, and background blurring effects in Microsoft Teams calls. What we do know is the chip features an Adreno 8cx Gen 3 GPU, indicating the SQ3 is essentially a tweaked Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 notebook processor family.
SQ3-equipped Surface Pro 9 may have an efficiency advantage, but it’s hampered by more restrictive configurations and a higher starting price to boot. The Intel-based systems can be equipped with up to 32GB of LPDDR5 memory, 1TB of NVMe storage, and Thunderbolt 4 ports. By comparison, Microsoft’s Arm-based systems are limited to just 16GB of LPDDR4x memory, a maximum of 512GB of NVMe storage, and standard USB-C ports.
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