Qualcomm Says Its New Snapdragon Chips Are 'the Fastest And Most Efficient' For Windows Pcs

Qualcomm has unveiled its caller Snapdragon X Series chips for laptops, successful summation to its caller system-on-a-chip for flagship phones. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme spot meant for "ultra-premium" Windows 11 laptops are designed to grip "complex, expert-level workloads" and to alteration accelerated AI processing, arsenic good arsenic a multi-day artillery life. Meanwhile, nan Snapdragon X2 Elite chips travel successful 2 variants, 1 pinch 18 full cores and 1 pinch 12. Qualcomm claims that these processors are nan "fastest, astir powerful and businesslike processors for Windows PCs."

The institution launched nan first Snapdragon X Elite chip successful 2023 arsenic its successor to nan Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 statement of laptop processors. Qualcomm changed its sanction backmost past to bespeak nan immense leap successful performance. Microsoft released a lineup of Copilot+ PCs pinch nan caller Snapdragon spot successful 2024. And past earlier this year, astatine CES, Qualcomm unveiled nan Snapdragon X for Copilot+ PCs priced $600 and under.

Qualcomm says that nan caller Elite Extreme spot tin powerfulness laptops for scientists and master creators who grip "computationally aggravated information analytics, master media editing and technological research." It features nan company's third-gen Oryon CPU that tin apparently tally astatine up to 75 percent faster than competitors. The spot besides comes equipped pinch Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU, which it says is nan "fastest NPU for laptops," to alteration simultaneous AI devices and experiences connected Copilot+ PCs.

The little tier Elite chips tin still tally astatine up to 31 percent faster and usage 43 percent little power than nan erstwhile generation. While they're evidently meant for users who don't grip much resource-intensive workloads, Qualcomm says they besides alteration simultaneous AI experiences. The first laptops powered by nan Snapdragon X2 Elite processors will beryllium disposable successful nan first half of 2026.