"In September, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, the laptop chips that, it claimed, would be "the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs." They might finally give Intel and AMD a run for their money. Now, CES 2026 is bringing us the first actual laptops based on both that silicon and the Snapdragon X2 Plus - a pair of just-announced chips aimed at more budget machines."
"PCs with the X2 Elite and ones with the X2 Plus should both arrive around the end of the first quarter, Qualcomm spokesperson Cassandra Garcia-Bacha tells The Verge. Qualcomm isn't promising particular price points like it did in 2024, when it proclaimed it'd bring the cost of a Snapdragon X laptop down to $700 - which makes sense, I suppose, as the global RAM shortage currently has PC prices in flux."
Qualcomm confirmed that laptops based on the Snapdragon X2 Elite, X2 Elite Extreme, and the new Snapdragon X2 Plus will reach the market around the end of the first quarter. The X2 Elite and Elite Extreme target high-performance Windows laptops while the X2 Plus targets more budget-oriented machines. Qualcomm declined to promise specific price points after earlier aims to push Snapdragon X laptops down to $700, noting that a global RAM shortage has left PC prices in flux. Qualcomm intends Snapdragon X2 products to occupy similar market tiers as the previous generation, with Elite roughly at $1,000 and Plus around $800.
Read at The Verge
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