Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

“Multi-day” battery life sounds wild! That’s probably the biggest thing for users. It would be good for Apple to get some competition because their M-chips seemed so far away from everything else.

Re: Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

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Post by otterley » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:44 PM UTC

Any thermal design power data? It's difficult to evaluate their efficiency claims (work per watt) without it.

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Post by jasoneckert » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:44 PM UTC

As someone who has used the Snapdragon X Elite (12 core Oryon) Dev Kit as a daily driver for the past year, I find this exciting. The X Elite performance still blows my mind today - so the new X2 Elite with 18 cores is likely going to be even more impressive from a performance perspective!

I can't speak to the battery life, however, since it is dismal on my Dev Kit ;-)

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Post by cultofmetatron » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC

why is it so hard for these companies to do any kind of descent marketing? more importantly, when do we get descent macbook air competitors?

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Post by evanjrowley » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:46 PM UTC

Today Qualcomm CEO stated[0] that the combination of Android and ChromeOS, e.g. Android Computers, will be available on Snapdragon laptops. Maybe these X2 CPUs will be in those laptops.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/ive-seen-it-its-inc...