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Qualcomm Announces X2 Elite SoCs - Up To 18 Cores & Up To 5.0GHz Boost Frequency

Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs as building off their X Elite laptop SoCs that shipped last year

So far Qualcomm is talking up these next-gen Snapdragon SoCs for laptops with Microsoft Windows 11. So far we haven't seen any early enablement patches for the Linux kernel around the Snapdragon X2 Elite, so it will likely come at a later stage -- plus Linux developers continue working through the X Elite support and getting all features worked out for these laptops that launched last year. See my most recent Snapdragon X Elite Linux tests from earlier in the month at Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra.

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