Qualcomm is using its phone DNA as a moat for PCs, and Snapdragon C is where that matters most

The cheap Windows laptop has been bad for fifteen years. Plastic shell, sluggish processor, a battery that quits before lunch, a fan that announces itself. The chip inside has changed names every few years, but the experience hasn’t. It’s the only category in personal computing where the product has effectively gone sideways for a decade and a half, and where buyers have learned to expect that.

That’s the tier Qualcomm just walked into.