Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 Leaks challenges Intel CPU for Laptops.

Qualcomm has been pushing into the PC processor market over the past few months by teaming up with Microsoft on the Always Connected program. It’s now reportedly crafting a new chip called the Snapdragon 1000 that’s purposely built for upcoming desktops and laptops.
The Snapdragon 1000 is reportedly a processor designed from grounds up for laptops and it aims to compete with Intel's fairly successful U series processor.

The report said that the Snapdragon 1000 developer platform had 16 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and two 128 GB UFS 2.1-rated memory modules on board. There also appears to be support for Gigabyte WLAN, the Snapdragon 850 software modem and also a new power management chip for handling increased power usage.

Also, the report states that the Snapdragon 1000 will be a socket chip, which means that the Soc will not be soldered on to the motherboard, which might mean the chip can be swapped out.

The SDM1000 will have dimensions of 20 x 15 millimeters which is larger than the Snapdragon 850 which has dimensions of 12.4 x 12.4 mm. However, this is still smaller than an average Intel processor which has 45 x 24 mm dimensions.