Qualcomm showed off demos of AI on Windows laptops.
Qualcomm showed off demos of AI on Windows laptops.
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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X Plus for efficient Windows laptops with on-board AI

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon X Plus processor platform for fast Windows laptops with long battery life.

Snapdragon X Plus features a 10-core Qualcomm Oryon CPU and a 45 TOPS neural processing unit (NPU) – the world’s fastest NPU for laptops – bringing unprecedented performance, efficiency and on-device AI capabilities to even more Windows PCs, the company said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.