The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was not the only major announcement that Qualcomm wanted to share with the masses, because it has unveiled two completely different class of chipsets and it is called them the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and the Snapdragon X2 Elite. Both SoCs leverage the 3nm process, and here is everything you need to know.
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme - Qualcomm’s most powerful silicon to date, and competes with Apple’s M4 Max
There is only a single part number of the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, which is X2E-96-100, and it sports a total of 18 cores, of which 12 hail from the ‘Prime’ category, while the remaining six are performance cores. Qualcomm’s new SoC is the first ARM-based chip to run at 5.00GHz, though the boost frequency can only be witnessed if one or two core