Ever since it released the Snapdragon X Elite in 2024, Qualcomm’s stated that its ambitions in the PC market have always been bold. The company set out to prove that ARM-based Windows laptops could be powerful, efficient, and competitive to rival x86 systems from Intel and AMD.

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One look at its successor, the Snapdragon X2 Elite, demystified in great detail at Qualcomm’s 2025 architecture deep dive in November 2025, makes it crystal clear that it’s more than a spec bump. Built on TSMC’s 3nm (N3 process node), and available in 12-core and 18-core (X2 Elite Extreme) configurations, it’s an aggressive doubling down on what a PC SoC needs to be in the age of multimodal AI, persistent on-device copilots, and high-efficiency AI agents running loca

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