Months after officially announcing its Snapdragon X2 Elite chips, Qualcomm’s next-gen mobile CPUs are set to be back on show at CES 2026. And from what I’ve already seen, laptops are about to get a serious upgrade in performance and battery.
After 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 best laptops around, and that’s a good sign for what the X2 series will bring…

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