Months after officially announcing its data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/i-just-benchmarked-every-snapdragon-x2-elite-chip-and-apple-intel-and-amd-should-be-worried-about-2026″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/i-just-benchmarked-every-snapdragon-x2-elite-chip-and-apple-intel-and-amd-should-be-worried-about-2026″>Snapdragon X2 Elite chips, Qualcomm’s next-gen mobile CPUs are set to be back on show at data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/ces” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/ces”>CES 2026. And from what I’ve already seen, laptops are about to get a serious upgrade in performance and battery.
After data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/i-benchmarked-the-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-heres-how-it-compares-to-apple-m4-intel-core-ultra-9-and-more” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/i-benchmarked-the-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-heres-how-it-compares-to-apple-m4-intel-core-ultra-9-and-more”>benchmarking the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, I’ve seen how far Qualcomm has come from its previous-gen chips, the Snapdragon X Elite series. The latter were fitted in some of the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/best-laptops” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/best-laptops”>best laptops around, and that’s a good sign for what the X2 series will bring…
