This is still unofficial, of course, but it won't be a surprise if Microsoft is trying to consolidate its Surface Pro lineup to avoid future confusion. On the other hand, it also makes it easier for Microsoft to simply kill off ARM options now that there's no specific brand for it. On the one hand, the inclusion of an ARM option in its mainline Surface Pro series suggests that it's confident this will succeed where others before it have failed. It is quite interesting that Microsoft is deciding to sunset the Surface Pro X line as a distinct ARM-based device, at least if the leak is accurate.

Of course, the exact performance of this silicon is still unknown, but to its credit, Qualcomm has been steadily improving its Compute desktop line of processors every generation. That would be a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 accompanied by a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to power AI capabilities.

The other variant will reportedly instead use a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, which could have the same processor as the Project Volterra mini-PC.

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