2024 was a record year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its laptop processors Snapdragon X Elite putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, the opening presentation of Qualcomm last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars of Makes from several of the best laptops, including Microsoft, HP, Dell and Asus appearing alongside the CEO of Qualcomm Cristiano Amon.
During today’s opening at Computex 2025, things were a little more moderate. No ads of exciting chips here; Instead, Amon went on stage and discussed progress (certainly quite good) that Qualcomm has made with the Snapdragon platform in the past year. A key factor that he underlined was the rapid growth of the applications supported on the Snapdragon X Elite platform, as well as the 1,400+ games that are playable on Snapdragon laptops.
Like last year, Amon presented the impressive tensile of Qualcomm on the Windows IT market, despite participating in the fight against the processor with Intel and AMD last year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made a brief appearance in the presentation, as well as Asus and HP leaders.
There were also cheeky blows at Intel and Apple (the latter concerning the fact that Fortnite is fully playable on the Snapdragon equipment), as well as the usual series of companies’ talling on the way AI is revolutionizing … something. Honestly, I sort of settled there a little there, until Amon draws a live laptop on stage which asked him questions (probably at the origin of human) on the equipment of the AI of Qualcomm in a synthetic robot voice. Quite cool, I guess, but what really caught my attention was a teaser at the very end of the presentation.
What is the next step for Snapdragon
So, although we have not obtained new Qualcomm chips at Computex, it seems that we now have a tacitly announced date for the next generation of Snapdragon X Systems-on-A-Chip (SOCS). It is September 23: the date of the own Qualcomm event, Snapdragon Summit, which will take place in Hawaii.
What exactly do we get in September? Amon would not say, only that “the revolution continues” and “I promise you that you will be impressed”. However, there are quite reasonable hypotheses that I am ready to do here.
Although the names of name are still a little in the air (because we are only one generation in the Windows laptop fleas of Qualcomm), the current popular hypothesis is that the new generation SoCs will use the nickname ‘Snapdragon X2’, so I will simply go with that here. I expect the initial launch presents both X2 Elite and X2 Plus chips for premium and median laptops markets, with large integration in the majority of manufacturers of portable productivity computers; Dell’s XPS Series, Asus’s Zenbooks, Lenovo’s Yoga Line, The Works.
A Snapdragon X2 chip “basic” will probably follow a little further (similar to the way in which the Snapdragon X chip was announced in CES in January of this year), offering a more concerned alternative to the budget. But I am most interested in the Snapdragon X Elite chip of the 2nd generation for office computers…
An office revolution?
Will we have an Elite Snapdragon X2 not integrated? I would not quite bet on this subject; So far, we have only seen snapdragon fleas in compact PCs from Lenovo. So do not expect to see a third option beyond Intel and AMD with regard to motherboards for DIY PCS-but expect more mini PCs and systems like the best all-in-one computers.
Although “Team Q” (always a workshop of this name, I am open to suggestions!) Could be a new relative come in this particular arena of the industry, this has had a serious impact. Cristiano Amon’s opening speech included somewhat surprising statistic: in the last quarter, Qualcomm now holds around 9% of the integrated processor market for the United States and the 5 main European markets. Given fierce competition, it is a very impressive performance.
Given how Qualcomm changed the game with the arrival of its first X Elite chips last year, I think that the use of the word “revolution” could actually be somewhat justified here. I’m not saying that lightly; It is a sentence that I am often annoyed to see used to describe extremely marginal changes. But with Qualcomm by finally making windows on Arm with the Snapdragon X series, I have great hopes for the whole Q team then.
