Qualcomm announces new Snapdragon 7c2 chip for entry-level PCs

Chipmaker Qualcomm today announced its newest entry-level chip for Windows laptops. The Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 is meant for Windows PCs and Chromebooks and is an update to the Snapdragon 7c that Qualcomm launched in 2019. The company said the new chip delivers up to 10 percent more system performance than competing platforms and will offer over 19 hours battery life, which is “up to two times” that of typical entry-level laptops.

The Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 competes with Intel’s Celeron N4020, the Intel Pentium N5030 and the MediaTek MT8183 chips. The chip uses an octa-core Kryo 468 CPU, clocked at 2.55GHz, the same CPU we saw on the 2019 version of this chip,