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Qualcomm's next-gen PC and mobile chips are coming soon, and you probably won't be shocked to learn that the company is promising big performance gains. While the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is expected to bring some nice improvements to smartphones and tablets, I'm particularly interested in the new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Extreme processors for Windows PCs.
That's because while Qualcomm has expanded its PC offerings over the past two years, it's mostly done that by introducing cheaper, less powerful processors than its flagship Snapdragon X Elite processor. Now the company is introducing next-gen chips that promise big gains in CPU, graphics, and AI performance as well as support for newer technologies like PCIe 5.0.
Here's a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for PCs have NPUs with up to 80 TOPS of AI performance, a 2.3X boost in GPU performance per watt, and up to 18 CPU cores for up to 31% faster overall performance. Devices coming in 2026. www.qualcomm.com/news/release…
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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip for mobile devices brings up to 20% faster single-core performance and 17% faster multi-core, a 23% graphics improvement, and camera + efficiency improvements. www.qualcomm.com/news/release…
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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Details are still vague, but Google's Rick Osterloh essentially confirmed that it's developing Android for laptop & desktop PCs, possibly as an end result of merging Android and ChromeOS. www.androidauthority.com/google-andro…
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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Google Play Games on PC is out of beta, bringing support for playing 200K+ mobile games on Windows PCs. blog.google/products/goo…
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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Open source video recording & live streaming app OBS version 32 stable is now available with new featuring including a basic plugin manager, automatic crash log uploads (opt-in only), and voice activity detection (for NVIDIA RTX audio fx). github.com/obsproject/o…
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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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