Qualcomm is poised to take on the laptop processor business in force with its next-generation chips.

He praised theArm-based processorsboth for their speed and efficient SoC (system-on-a-chip) design.

Qualcomm has made Arm-based chips for Windows PCs before.

That said, the model isn’t known for extreme computing power.

It’s likely this new move for Qualcomm is directly related to itspurchase of Nuvia.

This company is significant because it uses Arm-based chips to build servers.

Nuvia was also run by former Apple chip executives.