Major laptop makers are shipping devices with the new chip this fall.

Qualcomm and partners are assuredly cutting some corners to get to $300. The new platform doesn’t use Qualcomm’s Oryon CPU cores that underpin all its latest Windows laptop and smartphone chips, for instance, but are instead based on the older Kryo cores found in older phones and Chromebooks.

Nvidia unveiled a powerful laptop chip for Windows machines on Monday, staking its claim in the market for next-generation consumer PCs integrated with artificial intelligence. It is not the first time Nvidia chips have powered Windows devices -- a range of tablets did so in the early 2010s.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon C chip is designed for Windows laptops targeting a $300 price point.

The following should help you decide if the dollar-per-minute efficiency of a Chromebook or a Windows laptop is the best choice for you.  A Chromebook is a laptop that runs Google's ChromeOS rather than the previous standby of Microsoft Windows.

Nvidia unveiled new powerful chips that would bring advanced AI functions to laptops and desktop computers, with PC models from brands including Microsoft and Dell.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a long-awaited Arm-based PC chip, breaking into PCs for the first time on new laptops by Dell, Microsoft, HP, ASUS and others.