Microsoft launches 365 Premium for consumers, retires Copilot Pro
If you want your household to be on the cutting edge of AI, Microsoft has a deal for you: Microsoft 365 Premium, which combines the Family plan with Copilot Pro. At a new price of…
Mark Hachman
Mark Hachman
Best early October Prime Day deals on Thunderbolt docks & USB-C hubs
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sales offer one of the year’s best opportunities to score deals on USB-C hubs and docks and their more powerful cousins, Thunderbolt docking stations. All offer important, necessary ways to expand…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Qualcomm’s scintillating new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips have prompted a ton of conversations in the past few days. Can they make it? What do you like about them? And so on. While I can’t say…
Benchmarked: Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Intel’s laptop CPUs
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite is once again threatening to upend the PC CPU market. About two years ago, Qualcomm debuted the Snapdragon X1 Elite, an Arm chip that replaced the company’s mediocre 8-series Snapdragon chips…
Inside the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme’s memory mystery
One of the most confusing moments of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit was when I accidentally flipped over the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme in the testing room. Was that actually embedded memory? Yes, it is. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon…
Meet the wild new Snapdragon laptop built for agentic AI: ‘100 times faster than human thought’
Humain has unveiled the Horizon Pro PC, a laptop powered by agentic AI and a Snapdragon chip that the company claims “can operate 100 times faster than human thought.” Humain says the laptop will run…
Snapdragon’s secret advantage for road warriors lives on in X2 Elite
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite platform is expected to continue delivering the same performance on battery as it does on wall power, preserving a key advantage of the Windows on Arm platform versus its x86 competitors.…
Snapdragon’s new PC chips tap AirJet’s radical solid-state cooling
Two Qualcomm reference designs, showcasing the new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips, use an AirJet cooling system from Frore Systems, representatives confirmed. Qualcomm launched its second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme chips at the Snapdragon…
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite brings more cores and juggernaut AI to PCs
On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced three new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme processors for PCs, pushing into what it calls ‘ultra-premium PCs’ with a 5GHz CPU and an NPU delivering an industry-leading 80 TOPS.…
Microsoft’s Windows ML is ready to boost local AI
Just in time for the next generation of AI PC processors, Microsoft has announced that Windows ML is finally ready for production. It’s a key development for local AI and the chips that power its…