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 to the table — even compared to the latest Apple M5 processor.
