On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced three new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme processors for PCs, pushing into what it calls “ultra-premium PCs” with a 5GHz CPU and an NPU delivering an industry ...

Last week at Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced its next-gen line of PC chips, Snapdragon X2. The chips will come in two flavors: the X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme. At a benchmarking session at the ...

The Snapdragon X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s boldest PC chip yet, boasting longer runtimes, faster speeds, and performance that can rival Apple’s M4. Qualcomm promises multi-day battery life for laptops, ...

The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme are a pair of PC chips aimed at the performance laptop market. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, ...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite is once again threatening to upend the PC CPU market. About two years ago, Qualcomm debuted the Snapdragon X1 Elite, an Arm chip that replaced the company’s mediocre ...

While the debate over ARM and x86 is probably going to go on indefinitely, I'm looking past that noise and focusing on what ...

The new flagship chip, based on the Oryon architecture and largely destined for AI-forward, pro-grade laptops, will feature an 80 TOPS NPU. Also incoming in 2026: two new X2 Elite premium processors.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 may be the best new chipset in the Android realm, but Qualcomm is also establishing itself on the PC side with its X Elite series chips. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 ...

After Qualcomm unveiled its latest smartphone and slim-PC processors last week, ComputerBase tested the company's new flagship chip against laptop CPUs from AMD, Intel, and Apple.

At Snapdragon Summit 2025, the chipmaker showed off two ultra-thin reference desktops (one shaped like a saucer!), driven by ...

Qualcomm is finally ready to start competing with Apple's M-series of chips, nearly five years after the M1 made its debut in 2020. While the Snapdragon X series has been fairly successful in terms of ...

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 generation initially consists of three Elite models. The top model with Extreme suffix shows great performance in initial benchmarks. In the course of this year's Snapdragon ...