Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite platform is expected to continue delivering the same performance on battery as it does on wall power, preserving a key advantage of the Windows on Arm platform versus its x86 competitors.

Qualcomm announced both the X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme at its Snapdragon Technology Summit in Maui this week. The platform boasts 31 percent more performance than the X1 Elite at the same power. Alternatively, it can deliver the same performance while consuming 43 percent less power. That’s possibly due to new third-generation Oryon cores or a shift to a 3nm manufacturing process.

We still don’t know key details of how the chips perform–both against the older Snapdragon X Elite platform and rival offerings. What we do know is that the X2 Elite is expected to deliver t

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