The new flagship chip, based on the Oryon architecture and largely destined for AI-forward, pro-grade laptops, will feature an 80 TOPS NPU. Also incoming in 2026: two new X2 Elite premium processors.

Investors might not be as impressed by a new product line as the company hoped, plus an analyst downgraded his recommendation on the shares.

Qualcomm’s chief of mobile and compute, Alex Katouzian, said in a Q&A, “ [Gaming on PC] is moving slower than we want.” The 20-year Qualcomm veteran reiterated the anti-cheat compatibility with the original Snapdragon X series, which essentially locked out many of the most popular multiplayer games from its PCs.

At the annual Snapdragon Summit, Cristiano Amon predicts agentic AIs acting through our phones, glasses, and cars to create an ‘ecosystem of you.’

The Horizon Pro PC is the first piece of consumer hardware from Saudi Arabian AI company Humain, and runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip -- although the companies didn't specify whether it was the X2 Elite chip, which was unveiled on Wednesday. Humain claims the laptop can operate up to a 100 times faster than human thought.

Qualcomm, of course, imagines 6G will have something—anything—to do with AI. Because of course it is. Qualcomm has chips in a lot of different products, with the majority of them in Android phones. It’s powering XR glasses,

At Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit, CEO Cristiano Amon said we can expect 'pre-commercial' 6G devices in as little as three years.

With global smartphone sales leveling off, Qualcomm and MediaTek are taking their long-running rivalry into the fast-growing cloud AI ASIC market. DIGITIMES Research estimates MediaTek controlled 37% of the smartphone application processor market in 2024,