The stage is set for a huge CPU battle in 2026, and it’s already started as Intel and Qualcomm have fired away ahead of Panther Lake and Snapdragon X2 Elite debuting early next year (read: CES 2026).
Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...