ASUS launched its new Zenbook A16 Windows laptop on April 7 this year, and it certainly earned high praise in my review after I tested the similarly new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme processor inside it. That chip comes from Qualcomm, part of the Windows on ARM platform and the Arm64 architecture in general, rather than the "traditional" x86-64 examples you'd see from manufacturers like Intel's Core Ultra and AMD's Ryzen.
It's undoubtedly a monstrous, monolithic SoC (System-on-Chip), offering a power-efficient combination of a high-end "Oryon" CPU and a wealth of on-package memory (RAM), particularly for the X2 Elite Extreme variant inside my Zenbook A16 sample. You also get a "Hexagon" NPU for local AI tasks, rated for up to 80 TOPS, alongside an "Adreno" GPU for graphics.
