While every gaming handheld around right now is an iGPU machine, no one is going to buy a general consumer laptop for gaming.

Ever since discovering first-hand how strong Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips perform in Copilot+ PCs, there's been one thing on my mind. This stuff would be great in a gaming handheld.

Windows began a new chapter about a year ago when Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X silicon, giving yet another try at the ARM architecture. Microsoft is apparently hoping to taste the success that ...

Both the Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X Plus are based on Qualcomm’s custom Oryon CPU cores, which are designed to deliver high efficiency and competitive performance using the ARM architecture. The ...

When we tested laptops based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors, we were very impressed overall with the performance and the battery life, as both were objectively excellent—mostly making ...

Qualcomm also notes that the Snapdragon X2 Plus consumes up to 43% less power than the X Plus, and that's almost certainly ...

The benchmarks are drawn from Geekbench 6.5 and UL's Procyon suite, run on Windows 11 laptops. Qualcomm claims the 10-core X2 Plus can deliver up to ...

At CES, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the Snapdragon X2 Plus platform, the newest entrant to Snapdragon X ...

Based on the 3nm process, this one lifs t 80 TOPS NPU, nearly doubling its predecessor's AI performance and enabling over 50 ...

CES 2026 coverage continues as Qualcomm announced its latest Snapdragon X2 Plus processor today in Las Vegas. I was there for ...