After the modest success of its first generation of Arm-based Snapdragon X processors, as part of Microsoft's Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem, Qualcomm continued to improve the architecture by launching the Snapdragon X2 Elite last September. And at this year's CES event, it's back again, this time with the more affordable X2 Plus range.
It's worth noting right away that the new X2 Plus chips don't appear to be a fresh design. In the same way that an Intel Core Ultra 5 265K is simply a Core Ultra 9 285K with various cores and cache disabled, the Snapdragon X2 Plus processors just seem to be X2 Elite models with a whole host of stuff switched off.
