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 ...

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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 ...

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Qualcomm’s nascent push into PCs now has the sequel chip that will set the tone for what to expect from Windows-based machines going into 2026. This year, Qualcomm doesn’t have just one flagship CPU; ...

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 ...

Thrustmaster has announced and launched the eSwap X2 H.E Compatible with Xbox and PC, it includes Hall effect modules Otherwise, it's a broadly identical controller compared to the original eSwap X2 ...

Could 2026 finally be the year you ditch that laptop lead from your travel bag? Qualcomm has just pulled back the curtain on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite, new top-tier chipsets ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, this sure isn’t going to re-ignite the x86 vs. ARM performance arguments, right? Early, admittedly controlled, benchmarks from the new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme show it wiping the floor with ...

Qualcomm is sharpening its focus on high-performance computing. The approach was evident during the recently concluded Snapdragon Summit 2025, where it announced the second-generation Snapdragon X2 ...