The ASUS Zenbook A14 is available with the following SoCs:

• Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1 26 100 (8 cores/8 threads, up to 2.98GHz, Adreno X1-45 iGPU, 30MB cache)
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P 42 100 (8 cores/8 threads, up to 3.2GHz, Adreno X1-45 iGPU, 30MB cache)
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E 78 100 (12 cores/12 threads, up to 3.4GHz, Adreno X1-85 iGPU, 42MB cache)

All three are ARM-based SoCs (System-on-Chip) using Qualcomm’s Oryon cores. Qualcomm has three tiers of SoCs: Snapdragon X Elite, Snapdragon X Plus, and Snapdragon X, with the latter being the lowest tier. These are power-efficient chips designed for general productivity, like text processing, spreadsheets, web browsing, and video playback. The top-end Snapdragon X Elite chip can handle fairly demanding multi-threaded workloads, but as we’ve seen with other ARM-based laptops with these Snapdragon processors, hardware isn’t really the problem; it’s software compatibility, since many programs don’t run natively on an ARM-based system. This means some apps, especially professional third-party apps, might not work or will run poorly through emulation. Compatibility will likely improve over time, but for now, just check that the apps you use run properly. All three SoCs have the same NPU (Neural Processing Unit) with a rated performance of 45 TOPS (Trillions of Operations per Second) to handle AI tasks.

See more information about the Snapdragon SoCs in Qualcomm’s product brief.