Dell XPS 13 infused with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip
Today marks a historic day for the Dell XPS 13: it’s the first Dell XPS 13 notebook without an Intel chip inside. But no, it isn’t an AMD Ryzen chip. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite powers…
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Intel says ‘Lunar Lake’ will beat Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite
Today might be the coming-out party for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips and a sizeable number of laptop partners, but Intel wants to remind you that it will reveal its next-gen Core Ultra mobile chips,…
Acer’s first Snapdragon laptop is the Swift 14 AI
We’ve seen Windows-based PCs built around Arm processors before, but this year Microsoft and Qualcomm are pushing for a new generation of more powerful, more efficient machines. And OEMs are onboard in spades. Acer’s first…
Snapdragon laptops could nearly double Intel’s battery life, leak says
Microsoft has been trying to get Windows users to adopt machines based on the Arm architecture (the same type of chips that power smartphones and other small devices) for years, with limited success. But the…
I’m not afraid of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite
I’m an Olympic gold-medal trash talker — on the level of the best NBA haters raining 280-character S*&T talk on X.com micro-seconds after your team’s tearful exit from the play-in (sniff, go Warriors). Example: When…
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite PCs might just work
For too long, PCs with Snapdragon Arm chips inside of them have been a mixed bag: some native apps run well, but others have stuttered and hung if they weren’t coded correctly. Those days may…
The new Snapdragon X chips are faster than an M3, but should we believe it?
If you follow tech outside the world of Apple, you may have noticed that Qualcomm has been getting a lot of attention lately. That’s because the company is promoting its upcoming Snapdragon X Plus and…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite branding reads like Elon Musk baby names
Qualcomm is now breaking down exactly how fast each of its new Snapdragon X Elite and Plus Arm processors are…but with a list of chips and a product number decoder that is virtually impenetrable to…
Snapdragon X Plus: Qualcomm says its slowest CPU still beats Intel
Laptops using Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon chips have yet to ship. But PC makers — and you — will now have another option: the Snapdragon X Plus. Think of the Snapdragon X Plus as Qualcomm’s version…
Qualcomm says Snapdragon X Elite kicks Intel Core Ultra’s butt, too
When Qualcomm showed off its benchmarks of its new Snapdragon X Elite chips last October, there was one flaw in its argument: Qualcomm was comparing the new Snapdragon platform to Intel’s older 13th-gen Core chips.…