A post on the Chinese social media site Weibo has revealed an upcoming mini PC from Geekom — and it’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite. Since Qualcomm scrapped its own plans for a similar product, this will be the first-ever X Elite-powered mini PC to hit the market. The product itself looks just … Read more
As part of Qualcomm’s latest Investor Day, the company confirmed that its next PC chip, the Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2, will use the Oryon v3 CPU. This comes as a surprise to many, as the Oryon v2 was just announced last month alongside plans to use it with the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset for … Read more
Qualcomm has been on a tear with its Snapdragon X Elite CPUs in Copilot+ laptops, but the company is struggling to expand beyond the initial lineup. Just days after the first orders arrived, Qualcomm has abruptly canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows and promised refunds to developers who had ordered the mini PC. We … Read more
Luke Larsen / Digital Trends A new era in Windows computing is here, built around Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC initiative and a few new chipsets. While the most hype is around artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and performance thanks to faster Neural Processing Units (NPUs), the biggest changes today are in performance and battery life. And that’s … Read more
Luke Larsen / Digital Trends The day is finally here. Copilot+ laptops are available for sale, and we already have a handful of reviews making the rounds. The devices, packing the new Snapdragon X Elite chip, have been described as “amazing” and a turning point for Windows laptops. Once you step outside the bounds of … Read more
Luke Larsen / Digital Trends Copilot+ PCs represent a new era for Windows. Microsoft’s implementation of AI is key to these new devices, of course, but so is the transition to Arm. Although Copilot+ isn’t limited to Qualcomm’s Arm chips, right now they have exclusivity because of the required 40 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) … Read more
Arif Bacchus / Digital Trends Update 6/14/24: A slate of new Geekbench 6 results show that the Snapdragon X Elite performs about as well as Qualcomm claimed, at least in the Galaxy Book4 Edge. The new results, which were uploaded last night and this morning, show the processor reaching the advertised 4GHz and hitting single-core speeds … Read more
Qualcomm Qualcomm’s Computex 2024 keynote was relatively uneventful. The company just went on a tear with Microsoft introducing Copilot+ PCs, so the hour-long presentation was a victory lap with executives from every major laptop brand. One note stood out, though — Qualcomm’s CEO Cristiano Amon made a commitment to PCs as a platform. “We’re in … Read more
Digital Trends Dell is flipping the XPS 13 on its head. In fact, it’s changing up its entire lineup of laptops with the addition of the new Snapdragon X Elite chip, which coincides with Microsoft’s push into the era of AI PCs. Although we have five new laptops here, the XPS 13 definitely takes center … Read more
Digital Trends Coincidentally or not, the two most important tablets of 2024 were announced within a couple of weeks of each other. First was the updated Apple iPad Pro, which was announced on May 7, 2024, and began shipping on May 15, 2024. Then, on May 20, 2024, a radically new Microsoft Surface Pro was … Read more
