TOPS of the Heap: Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme CPU With 18 Cores, Massive NPU

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LAHAINA, MAUI—At Snapdragon Summit 2025, Qualcomm’s annual technology and silicon showcase, the chip maker unveiled a new family of Arm-based processors for laptops, in three initial flavors. Qualcomm is garnishing these chips liberally with claims of laptop-CPU firsts, bests, and tops—literally TOPS, in the last case.

The new chips, the Snapdragon X2 Elite line, are built on a third generation of…