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Jowi Morales

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X PC processor to skip 2nd generation — Qualcomm previews Oryon 3, says Oryon 2 only intended for mobile chips

Qualcomm, Snapdragon X Elite.

At its latest investor day, Qualcomm hinted on the third generation of its Oryon CPU cores. According to German outlet ComputerBase.de (machine translated), it seems that the Oryon 2 will be skipping PCs, and will only be used in the Snapdragon 8 Elite chips. The successor to the Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips will be powered by the Oryon 3 and is targeted to be launched around the time of Computex 2025, which coincides with the Dell leak showing Qualcomm’s roadmap for its Arm-based CPUs.

The second-generation Oryon chips were tested “using a Qualcomm reference design on Android 15,” and are expected to exceed the first-generation Oryon chip by 30% in performance and 57% in efficiency. However, the company hasn’t released any information yet about the Oryon 3-powered next-generation Arm CPU chips, so we’ll have to wait for additional information from the company.

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