“Stay” competitive implies they’ve been competitive. Which they haven’t.
I’m filing this into the bin with all the other “This next Qualcomm chip will close the performance gap” claims made over the past decade. Maybe this time it’ll be true. I wouldn’t bet on it.
Point taken. I used "stay" as in, their next rumored/leaked chip wouldn't be an single anomalous success but the start of a trend that could expand to the X2, X3 Elite chips coming after.
Basically we'd need some basis to believe they'll be progressively improving at more or less the same pace as Intel's or Apple's chips to get on board with ARM laptops for Windows/linux.
Otherwise I don't see software makers care enough to port their build to ARM as well.
I’m filing this into the bin with all the other “This next Qualcomm chip will close the performance gap” claims made over the past decade. Maybe this time it’ll be true. I wouldn’t bet on it.