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Qualcomm’s claim that the Snapdragon X2 Elite family delivers “the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows” is ambitious—and the company backed it with numbers that, on paper, reshape the argument for Windows on Arm: a 3 nm‑class process node, up to 18 CPU cores in top bins, a...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme doesn’t just promise a step forward for Windows on ARM — it promises a potential leap that could finally make a high‑end Windows laptop a credible, everyday alternative to Apple’s M‑series machines for creators, data scientists, and power users. The...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 family — led by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and the slightly scaled X2 Elite — marks a deliberate, high-stakes push to make Windows-on-ARM a first-choice platform for premium laptops, creators, and enterprise Copilot+ devices by combining higher single‑thread...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 family — and especially the flagship Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme — marks the most aggressive push yet by an ARM vendor into the premium Windows laptop market, promising a combination of blistering peak clocks, a vastly larger on‑device NPU, and memory and GPU...

Geekom’s long‑teased QS1 Pro mini PC promises to ship one of the most intriguing hardware combinations we’ve seen for a compact Windows machine: a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E‑80‑100) class SoC, Windows 11 Pro preinstalled, up to 64GB of LPDDR5‑5600 memory, and a modern I/O stack that...

When Microsoft quietly released KB5061856—a Phi Silica AI component update (version 1.2505.838.0) designed specifically for Qualcomm-powered systems—the Windows ecosystem took a significant if understated step toward realizing on-device AI at scale. While this update may appear, at first glance...