Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite for Windows PCs, with 75% faster CPU, 80 TOPS NPU, and multi-day battery. The devices are expected in 1H 2026.

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.

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.

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

OnePlus 15 smartphone powered by Qualcomm's new flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor can run Delta Force at 165FPS, very impressive.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 uses Qualcomm's X85 modem along with the company's FastConnect 7900 connectivity chip, with Wi-Fi 7 and AI that leads to up to 40% power savings as well as optimizing Wi-Fi for 50% lower latency for gaming.

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,

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,