Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon X2 laptops are here — and they brought a new friend

In September, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, the laptop chips that, it claimed, would beryllium "the fastest and astir businesslike processors for Windows PCs." They mightiness yet springiness Intel and AMD a tally for their money. Now, CES 2026 is bringing america the archetypal actual laptops based connected some that silicon and the Snapdragon X2 Plus - a brace of just-announced chips aimed astatine much fund machines.

PCs with the X2 Elite and ones with the X2 Plus should some get astir the extremity of the archetypal quarter, Qualcomm spokesperson Cassandra Garcia-Bacha tells The Verge.

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