"Making a great chip means nothing if we can't do it the next year" - Qualcomm unveils powerful new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for faster, better laptops

I'm at the 10th annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii (special thanks to Qualcomm for flying me halfway around the world to be here), and it's that time of year again: new laptop chips have officially arrived.

With the first generation of Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips already in the hands of consumers following a 2024 launch at Computex, it was only natural that chipmaker Qualcomm would want to go for another round; while the original X Elite chips were good, competition to be the company powering the best laptops was fierce. But sure enough, we now have confirmation that second-gen Snapdragon laptops are indeed inbound.

It's a little different from last time, though: while the first-generation Snapdragon X lineup was headlined by the Elite chip, the star of the show here is the new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, which looks to be ...