[HN Gopher] Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
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Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
Author : wmf
Score : 37 points
Date : 2025-09-24 22:01 UTC (58 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.qualcomm.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.qualcomm.com)
| orthoxerox wrote:
| Not a single benchmark even against the previous generation. Just
| a "legendary leap in performance".
| leakycap wrote:
| Bigly fast, trust them!
| bigyabai wrote:
| Those memory bandwidth numbers are making me proud of being a
| LPDDR4 holdout.
| daniel_iversen wrote:
| "Multi-day" battery life sounds wild! That's probably the biggest
| thing for users. It would be good for Apple to get some
| competition because their M-chips seemed so far away from
| everything else.
| otterley wrote:
| Careful; the multi-day claims may depend on having an
| unrealistically huge battery, or being active only sporadically
| across the time period.
| otterley wrote:
| Any thermal design power data? It's difficult to evaluate their
| efficiency claims (work per watt) without it.
| jasoneckert wrote:
| As someone who has used the Snapdragon X Elite (12 core Oryon)
| Dev Kit as a daily driver for the past year, I find this
| exciting. The X Elite performance still blows my mind today - so
| the new X2 Elite with 18 cores is likely going to be even more
| impressive from a performance perspective!
|
| I can't speak to the battery life, however, since it is dismal on
| my Dev Kit ;-)
| typpilol wrote:
| How's the compatibility? Are there any apps that don't work
| that are critical?
| jasoneckert wrote:
| To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: "No."
| cultofmetatron wrote:
| why is it so hard for these companies to do any kind of descent
| marketing? more importantly, when do we get descent macbook air
| competitors?
| dkasper wrote:
| This is just a laptop cpu, not an end consumer product...
| thewebguyd wrote:
| > when do we get descent macbook air competitors
|
| When laptop OEMs stop catering to the lowest common denominator
| corporate IT purchasers (departments which don't care about
| screen quality, speaker quality, or much of anything else
| outside of does the spec sheet on paper match our requirements
| and is it cheap).
| evanjrowley wrote:
| Today Qualcomm CEO stated[0] that the combination of Android and
| ChromeOS, e.g. Android Computers, will be available on Snapdragon
| laptops. Maybe these X2 CPUs will be in those laptops.
|
| [0] https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/ive-seen-it-its-
| inc...
| otterley wrote:
| Does anyone buy these?
| stusmall wrote:
| ChromeOS is popular in schools and for extremely locked down,
| managed corporate devices.
| ggm wrote:
| Who is likely to package this into existing lines, from the
| majors? Is this a future lenovo/thinkpad carbon?
| wmf wrote:
| It's likely to be in Thinkpads (unless Lenovo lost so much
| money on the X Elite that they ragequit ARM).
| thewebguyd wrote:
| I would assume it'll follow the path as the first X Elite.
|
| MS put out surface & surface laptop with it, Lenovo did do the
| ThinkPad X1 with it, and Dell put it in the XPS line.
| christopher8827 wrote:
| I'm holding my breath though. I have a Samsung Edge 4 laptop and
| I didn't find the battery life impressive - prob got around 6
| hours under coding / programming tasks. GPU performance is
| terrible too.
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