Qualcomm's latest foray into personal computer system-on-chip designs, the Snapdragon X family, has been with us for more than a year now. It started with a small handful of Snapdragon X Elite chips ...
Chip maker Qualcomm is probably best known for making the processors that power flagship smartphones and tablets, but the company has been making a play for the PC space over the past few years… with ...
I had the opportunity to attend the Snapdragon Summit a few weeks ago, and I reported on the new Snapdragon X2 Elite chipset coming to PCs in 2026. The first X Elite chip impressed me last year, and ...
Qualcomm recently invited a few journalists to check out the company’s new laptop chip. Our friends over at PCWorld were able to run benchmarks on it, and they said the chip is “once again threatening ...
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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 ...
In case you've been out of the know for a bit in tech, Qualcomm just announced a family of new mobile processors last week at its Snapdragon Summit event, including its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile ...
The takeaway: Qualcomm claims that its new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the best laptop processor on the market, and early third-party benchmarks mostly supports this assertion. However, Apple ...
At Snapdragon Summit, we sat down with Qualcomm’s head of compute to unpack the company’s most ambitious PC processors yet. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just ...