


Second, they also let the company show consumers and other computer makers Microsoft's view of the future of personal computing. First, they're a serious business at Microsoft. Microsoft's Surface products, with their integrated hardware and software, serve a dual role. That chip in the new Surface Pro X carries a message from Microsoft: It's time for laptops to get phone-like all-day battery life, but not if that means sacrificing processing power to get there. What we didn't know is we'd also get a new Microsoft processor, a Qualcomm-derived chip called the SQ1.

We knew we'd get a bunch of new laptops at Microsoft's Surface event on Tuesday.
