Qualcomm has celebrated this week the Snapdragon Summit 2025, the tenth edition of one of the Most important events of the year for semiconductor firmthe largest world supplier of processors for mobile devices and that for a while until this part has also embarked on the adventure of selling socs for personal computers.
In addition to new processing platforms for both mobile and PCS devices, Qualcomm has presented an advance of the solutions it is developing for the next generation of 6G mobile networks and the advances that it is implementing for technology that reigns in the world industry, artificial intelligence.
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Snapdragon X2 Elite
The processors Snapdragon X2 Elitethe new generation of the first viable version to feed the Windows ecosystem about ARM, has been the most relevant of the Qualcomm event. The company wants to replicate Apple’s success with its new Mac and at the same time offer an alternative to the classic PCs with INTEL or AMD CPUS.
The American semiconductor firm has not fallen short to promote its new platform by ensuring that these are processors “Faster and faster for Windows PCs” Never created. Snapdragon X2 Elite will be marketed in two versions (standard and extreme) and will be used to motorize mainly laptops and high-end tablets, although they could also be installed in Aios or Mini-PCs.
They will be manufactured in technological processes of 3 Nm under the well -known SOC design (system in a single chip), which will include CPUS ORYON, Integrated Adreno graphics, Hexagon Neuronal Processing Unit, memory and more circuits. The company ensures that the new line is 75% faster than its predecessor with the same energy consumption, an energy efficiency that has always been able to presume processors with ARM architecture.
In addition to process performance improvements, graphics and energy efficiency, Qualcomm has presented news for the Acceleration of artificial intelligence taskswith a new NPU Hexagon that promises 80 yield tops (37 percent more than the previous generation) and with a 16 percent improvement in energy consumption. Qualcomm says that this neuronal processing unit is “the fastest of those created for laptops.”
Qualcomm and Google Alliance: Android for PC
The CEO of Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon, and the senior vice president of Google devices and services, Rick Osterloh, spoke on stage about what could hold the future of computer science. The great head of Osterloh leaves no doubt: “We are building a common technical basis together for our PC products and desktop computer systems.”
Osterloh explained the known. In the past, Google had always had different operating systems for PCs and mobile devices. Now, the time has come for a unified platform: «We have embarked on a project to combine them»said the executive, in the clearest statement of that very expected Android for PC ever made by Google.
Google has been combining chromeos and Android elements for some time, the same as Apple is doing functions and services from macOS. Last June, Google announced plans to integrate the Android Linux kernel, the Android frameworks and other characteristics of the Android battery in the Chromeos nucleus. “We are developing Chromeos’s experience about Android’s underlying technology to achieve new performance levels, faster iterations and get your laptop and your phone to work better together”.
Now comes another step with a clear idea, Take Android’s experience to PCs and take advantage of their billions of users so that when they need to Buy a PC they bet on Android and not for Windows.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm has also presented its next flagship chipset to motorize some of the most powerful intelligent mobiles next year, starting with Samsung’s Galaxy S26. Except for what Apple can do with its new developments, it will be the rival to beat in socs for mobility in terms of performance.
The semiconductor manufacturer will resume the usual nomenclature to simplify its product line and differentiate it from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (not elite), with similar architecture, but less powerful to reduce costs. As Qualcomm will not access the 2 NM TSMC process node (the most advanced in the industry) until the next generation, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will be produced in processes of processes 3 nanometersbut slightly improved with “N3E” technology. They say that it can offer an increase in 5% yield with the same energy consumption or an improvement of 5% to 10% in energy saving with the same watch speeds.
The SOC will keep the same cluster with 8 CPU nucleitwo ‘prime’ and six ‘perfomance’ with frequency of augmented work until 4,74 GHz y 3,63 GHzrespectively. An impressive speed that as we said about as never never the mobile chipsets is that of the Snapdragon X that are used on PCs.
Regarding the graphic section, the new Integrated Adren 100 TOPS. To put it in context, to say that the Snapdragon X Elite for PC can reach a maximum yield of 45 tops.
It’s y 6g
If in 2024 Qualcomm proposed to demonstrate how AI could be customized through innovations such as multimodal assistance and the execution of large local models on the device, in the Snapdragon Summit 2025 the company has shown more information and its implementation.
The approach is not new; Many technology companies have talked about taking advantage of the computing where it is, both in the cloud and on the edge. The Christian CEO Amon states that this same approach will apply to AI, so that portable devices, computers and servers will work together. “AI is the new user interface”says the executive, putting the AI where the user is.
Amon has also announced a expansion beyond smartphones with AI and silicon. Devices such as a smart watch are simply smartphone extensions, he says. As the AI seizes the phone, these devices will begin to interact with their AI. It is not exaggerated to say that these devices could be considered agents that will work with the smartphone in specific functions. Amon called him an “you ecosystem.”
The applications that execute these devices, such as glasses, They will continue to evolveA Amon said. Simple applications such as calendar, contacts, banking or invoices will be managed by AI. If a conflict arises, for example, artificial intelligence will resolve it.
As the technology of AI evolves, the CEO said that the models will also evolve, becoming a collection of staggered models on the edge, designed to assign tasks efficiently. The cloud will process the data and train the model, but it will be the edge that adjusts its training data and then applies the model to the user’s needs.
The Executive explains that “The amount of data will far exceed the amount of data necessary to train the models”in a huge amount.
As these models and data must communicate, Amon highlights the next generation of 6G mobile networks as the evolution of 5G. Qualcomm’s work in 6G will assume that the network itself will communicate that data intelligently. In another of the ads of this Snapdragon Summit 2025, the Executive said that his company will have “PREMOMERCIAL DEVICES” 6G from 2028.
