PCs and laptops constitute the next major device category for continuous cellular connectivity, alongside smartphones, cars and a few categories of IoT devices. That is certainly Qualcomm’s hope and marketing objective, as it singles out the PC market as a new avenue of growth to compensate for saturation in the smartphone realm. There are also application sectors within these UE (user equipment) categories, such as mobile gaming, where SoCs such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Elite Gaming come into play for PCs and laptops primarily, competing with chips from Intel and AMD in particular. But targeting PCs and laptops for mobile connectivity in its own right is a new departure, gelling with various developments in the field. One is the growing use…