Grown-up Arm Chips Look to Dethrone x86 in Laptops

Qualcomm is again coming for laptops—and this time, it means business.

At the company’s October 2023 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X Elite, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) with a custom Arm architecture designed specifically for laptop PCs. The new chip is far from Qualcomm’s first attempt to upset the PC’s status quo (the first Snapdragon laptops hit stores in 2017), but experts agree: this time, it’s different.

“I think the consensus is that [Qualcomm senior vice president of engineering] …

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