Qualcomm seems to be working on Snapdragon soc with higher clock speeds for PCs

Qualcomm appears to be working on a variant of its Snapdragon 8cx soc for PCs with higher maximum clock speeds than the current chip supports. The chip could appear under the name Snapdragon 8cx Plus.

Import-export documents mention a Qualcomm soc with model name SC8180XP, Winfuture discovered. The site speculates that the P stands for Plus; the regular Snapdragon 8cx has the model name SC8180X. With its most powerful mobile socs, Qualcomm also uses the Plus designation for variants with higher clock speeds.

According to the documents, the maximum clock speed of the Kryo Gold cores is 3.15GHz with the SC8180XP. That’s higher than the SC8180X, which offers a clock speed of up to 2.84GHz. The Silver cores would still operate at 1.8GHz. Winfuture does note that the documents date from February 2020 and that it may be a test chip that does not appear. Liliputing makes a comparison with the SQ1-soc, a variant of the Snapdragon 8cx, which Microsoft designed in collaboration with Qualcomm for the Microsoft Surface Pro X.