Qualcomm has released two new chips within the Snapdragon X Series portfolio. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite are “the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs,” according to the company. The 3nm chips boast up to 43 percent less power consumption than the prior generation. They were unveiled at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, where Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talked about the 6G future, which he described as a “dynamic, adaptive network of intelligence” that will be contextually sensitive, feeding across an ecosystem of personal devices from phones and laptops to smart glasses and connected cars.

Wireless 6G is “designed to be the connection between the cloud and edge devices,” Amon said, predicting that Qualcomm will be testing pre-commercial products in 2028, reports Tom’s Guide.

“Amon noted that 6G would play a key role in the evolution of AI technology, with AI models becoming hybrid,” writes Tom’s, specifying that “this includes a combination of cloud and edge devices (like user interfaces, sensors, etc.).”

Qualcomm’s proposition reflects “the way that humans interact with technology is going to change from using many apps to interacting with a single agent on their devices,” notes Mobile World Live.

Qualcomm also showcased its next-generation chips. The Elite Extreme is built for ultra-premium laptops, with “multi-day battery life and blazing fast AI-processing power” aimed at agentic apps, professional media editing and computationally intense functions like data analytics, Qualcomm explains in a news release.

These X2 processors are equipped with 3rd Gen Qualcomm Oryon CPUs with up to 18 cores that “can run up to 4.4GHz, or up to two of them at 5GHz — a clockspeed Qualcomm says is a first for Arm CPUs,” writes The Verge.

The X2s are “up to 75 percent faster than competition,” Qualcomm claims of the new chips, which compete against products from Intel and AMD.

“Gaming on Arm, which still needed work last year, will get a boost from a dedicated new 18MB of high speed cache that Qualcomm’s calling ‘Adreno High Performance Memory’” on the Adreno GPUs, The Verge reports, noting this will also improve the performance of Adobe tools.

Qualcomm also revealed its latest flagship mobile SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, reports Mobile World Live, adding that Amon shared his keynote with Google Head of Platforms and Devices Rick Osterloh, who said “Google plans to bring Gemini and the full Android AI stack” to PCs.