Qualcomm is back for round two of data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qualcomm-claims-it-owns-10-percent-of-u-s-windows-pc-retail-market-for-devices-priced-usd800-and-up” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qualcomm-claims-it-owns-10-percent-of-u-s-windows-pc-retail-market-for-devices-priced-usd800-and-up”>its push into Windows PCs. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, the company revealed its Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme. These chips will serve as the high-end offerings in Qualcomm’s second generation of Arm-based chips for laptops and other PC form factors.
The Elite Extreme is a new tier above the standard Elite, which was the top chip in the original X-series line. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme will offer up to 18 cores, and Qualcomm claims it’s the…
