Qualcomm plans to design an M1 competitor for PCs—sans ARM

Enlarge / Qualcomm's QTM525 5G mmWave antenna module and Snapdragon X55 5G modem. (credit: Qualcomm)

Qualcomm's new CEO, Cristiano Amon, says the company will have no problem producing laptop chips to compete directly with Apple's M1—mainly because Qualcomm now employs some of the key minds behind Apple's highly publicized breakthrough.

Amon told Reuters in a recent interview that Qualcomm will attempt to design its own system-on-a-chip (SoC) for laptops without working with ARM, its partner in smartphone chips.

This SoC would include a 5G modem as well as a CPU. Explaining this strategy, Amon said:

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