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Asus ZenBook A16 Qualcomm-based laptop
Asus ZenBook A16 review

By Ian Evenden Published

Score: 73% The latest Snapdragon chip in a thin and light shell.

Score: 73%
Various VR and XR device mock-ups featuring the recently announced Snapdragon Reality Elite SoC float in a red void.
Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for 'up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance' in VR gaming

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News A stronger case for smartglasses.

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An iPad Mini A17 and iPhone 16 on a desk with a gaming PC in the background.
Apple turns 50 today: here's what it does better than PC (no foolin')

By Jacob Ridley Published

Happy birthday The Mac vs PC debate is as old as the companies that make 'em. But even I can admit Apple silicon is a bit of a beast.

Happy birthday
Microsoft Windows Event
Microsoft teams up with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to share 'our dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows'

By James Bentley Published

News It could be laying the foundation for whatever the Xbox division is cooking up, too.

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A rendered image used to promote the DirectStorage feature test in 3DMark
Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Racing ahead.

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Snapdragon X2 Elite
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance

By Jeremy Laird Published

News How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.

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Kevin O’Buckley was senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel. Now at Qualcomm.
Intel Foundry exec leaves to head up Qualcomm's semiconductor biz as Intel shake-up continues

By Jacob Ridley Published

News Intel has lost a few key execs over the past 18 months.

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Snapdragon X2 Elite
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU

By Jeremy Laird Published

News There's a little more to come from Qualcomm, but it probably won't be enough.

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A generic promotional image for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus processor
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X2 Plus, with up to 35% more single-core CPU performance and 29% faster GPUs than X Plus chips

By Nick Evanson Published

CES 2026 It'd be kinda nice to see some Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops first, though.

CES 2026
Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge in black and white with a controller in the foreground
PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years

By Jeremy Laird Published

Arm-y There's a veritable CPU Arm-y marching towards the PC.

Arm-y
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