Snapdragon X2 Elite
Up to 18 cores, a 3 nm process and an 80 TOPS NPU
Qualcomm's second-generation PC platform, announced in September 2025, is the hardware behind the 2026 wave of Arm laptops. More cores and a faster NPU give native and emulated apps alike more headroom.
Key points
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Third-generation Oryon
Up to 18 CPU cores on the X2 Elite Extreme, with one or two cores able to boost to 5 GHz.
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Same compatibility model
Apps behave as they do on Snapdragon X: native Arm64 where a build exists, Prism for everything else.
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A bigger NPU
80 TOPS, up from 45, for Copilot+ features and local AI models.
