Snapdragon CPUs have seemingly come out of the void to make their mark on the PC market. They offer several advantages over Intel and AMD chips that contribute to their popularity and effectiveness in ...
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 ...
TL;DR: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor costs $240-$280 per chip, significantly higher than previous generations, due to expensive TSMC 3nm fabrication. This price hike signals that 2026 ...
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 ...
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. It features the Qualcomm Oryon CPU and next-gen Qualcomm Adreno GPU. The results include the fastest on-device AI processing. In the AI-first world ...
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In case you missed our other coverage from Snapdragon Summit 2024, new second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for Windows on Arm laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5—Qualcomm's ...
Qualcomm has announced its next generation of PC processors: the Snapdragon X2. It might not sound very exciting, but these chips continue to bring Windows laptops up to par with Apple Silicon–powered ...
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; ...
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chip is generating buzz with rumors of CPU clocks over 5GHz and impressive leaked benchmarks. Expected to offer significant performance gains for both CPU and GPU, it ...
Samsung, Sony, and many Chinese brands rely on Snapdragon chipsets to power their Android devices. Even some portable computers now run on this central processing unit (CPU), with the launch of ...