Qualcomm has been making the new Snapdragon X Elite chip bigger again this time at the Computex show. As for the technical details, few new ones have emerged from Qualcomm's Computex keynote, but the company is one of X Elite's gaming prowess when running Windows

Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon said the company has tested and optimized 1,200 Windows games on X Elite, including many Triple A games. "We've been working with Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Remedy, Ubisoft, EA, Larian Studios, and others, and we've been working with them for a long time," he said...And, of course, Xbox Studio," he said.

Amon also drew a brief picture of how AI and X Elite's NPU would affect the game. He told the audience the possibility of NPU running a large language model locally on the device and how it shadows NPCs and non-player characters and gaming experiences

In essence, he had the potential for more realistic interactions and conversations with NPCs in the game thanks to Llm. "We are at the beginning of a revolution in gaming for AI," he concluded.

What Amon did not specifically do was appeal to any detail. There was no impressive demo of the hot Triple a title running on the X Elite. There was also no direct comparison between X Elite's Adreno GPUs and competing integrated GPUs on Intel or AMD's x86 chips, whether X Elite needs to emulate primarily x86 titles, or whether Qualcomm has worked with game developers to extract the Arm instruction set used by X Elite from the existing x86 code base.

When Qualcomm first took the lap off its new chip in May, it showed off that Baldur's Gate 3 is emulated courtesy of X Elite, though we now assume it is the new "prism" layer of Windows for Arm. This is really very impressive, which means that the entire chip and emulation environment for windows for Arm has a lot of potential. But at the same time, it's just one game.

It's certainly a bit worrisome that Qualcomm had little substance to say or show on Computex — 1,200 games tested and optimized sounds great

as the first Snapdragon X Elite laptop is just a few weeks away, we'll see right away. But there is one thing for sure. The hardest test of the new chip and the overall idea of running traditional x86 code in emulation mode on the windows Arm chip will be the game. bring it.