A year of Snapdragon powered AI devices – Fortnite coming and more

It’s been almost a year since Qualcomm President and CEO, Cristiano Amon, took to the Computex stage to announce the new Copilot+ platform in partnership with Microsoft. 

At his Computex 2025 keynote,, instead of announcing new chips – which will be coming later this year – Mr Amon has reflected on the past year, and looked to the future of how Qualcomm is powering, and will power upcoming AI experiences, and how those AI experiences will rise above the OS, as well as announcing Fortnite for ARM devices running Windows.

A year ago, it was a frustrating experience being a Windows user buying a laptop. Apple’s M-series processors were leading the industry with almost unbelievable battery life and performance across their range

The launch of the Snapdragon Elite platform last year, finally brought Windows to ARM processors after years of trying, allowing them to ‘restore performance leadership back to the Windows Ecosystem’ said Mr Amon. 

Those  excellent battery life stats have become prevalent on all the Copilot+ PCs we see on the market these days, which now number more than 85 models, across manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, HP, Microsoft and more, with up to 100 models coming in the future, including the just announced Acer devices, HP OmniBook 5 series and the recently announced Surface devices.

While a slew of partners was on-stage, espousing the benefits of the Snapdragon platform for their brands, our own retailers, Harvey Norman and Officeworks also made an appearance via quotes:

One of the more exciting things spoken about was the advancement of gaming on Qualcomm Snapdragon Windows devices, with now over 1,400 games available running natively – not using the Prism Windows emulator. 

Mr Amon also spoke about meeting Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in a queue, resulting in a massive win for Fortnite gamers, with the game coming to the platform later this year – once their Anti-Cheat service is enabled.  This Anti-Cheat service will likely power more titles from Epic coming to the platform, but there’s nothing announced at this stage.

Mr Amon did talk about how the future of AI is in the Agents that run that AI, which he believes will eventually transcend the OS – using the example of smart glasses to illustrate that the AI on them is the ‘app’.

These AI Agents will work together on-device, or using 5G to connect to Agents in the cloud to produce everything from analysing data to producing reports, and creating documents, presentations and more. 

As for what’s next? Well, there’s more coming including native Premiere Pro from Adobe – which was shown off in a demo. We’ll also see what’s next from Qualcomm with Mr Amon signing off the keynote by announcing the Snapdragon Summit from September 23-25 in Hawaii – so we’ll see what gen 2 of the AI PC revolution brings.

The Keynote is now on-line if you want to give it a watch.

EFTM’s Coverage of Computex 2025 is made possible in part by Qualcomm