Snapdragon X2 Plus announced with big performance and battery life gains

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TL;DR

• Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X2 Plus processor, coming in below the X2 Elite series.
• The new chip is available with six or 10 CPU cores, while the 10-core variant also offers a more powerful GPU.
• The first PCs with this chipset are set to launch at CES 2026.

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme at the Snapdragon Summit in October, and it’ll power a host of Arm-based Windows PCs. Now, the company has announced the Snapdragon X2 Plus processor.

The 3nm Snapdragon X2 Plus succeeds 2024’s Snapdragon X Plus, which was available in a variety of cheaper Windows on Arm PCs. The processor uses Qualcomm’s third-generation custom Kryo cores and has peak speeds of 4GHz.




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