Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026.

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 ...

Windows 11 on Arm has come a long way, baby, thanks largely to Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X chips. But there's still one ...

Qualcomm is introducing another Arm laptop chip to its Snapdragon X series today, lowering the cost of Copilot Plus PCs to ...

PCs built with Arm processors work well with general productivity apps. Backup software may be unable to restore from an external drive. Gamers and hobbyists who want to dual-boot Linux will run into ...

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform, a new flagship "Extreme" chipset for Windows on Arm notebooks, tablets, and 2-in-1s that promises more connectivity, more power, and battery ...

It’s the great, universal frustration of computing: You’re trying to finish a project, but your laptop just isn’t working, and you can’t do much about it. Maybe the battery is draining too rapidly, ...

The first Windows laptops to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips sold for $1,000 and up when they first hit the streets earlier this year. But in September Qualcomm ...

At times, it can seem like our devices possess a supernatural talent for knowing the most inopportune moment to run out of battery. You’re in an airport, the clock is ticking on a crucial project, and ...

What can you expect from "the most extreme Snapdragon" ever to be found in a notebook? Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx reference designs may not stand out at first glance – think sober Lenovo Yoga-esque ...

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5G smartphones may be all the buzz at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona, but the next generation wireless communications technology is more about ushering an entire ecosystem of connected ...