{"id":450929,"date":"2026-01-07T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/?p=450929"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:36:03","slug":"qualcomm-introduces-snapdragon-x2-plus-for-copilot-plus-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/qualcomm-introduces-snapdragon-x2-plus-for-copilot-plus-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon X2 Plus for Copilot Plus PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"298\">Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Plus chipset ahead of CES 2026, positioning it as part of its Snapdragon X Series for the first wave of Copilot Plus laptops expected to arrive in early 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"298\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-450962 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147-1-700x392.jpg\" alt=\"Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147-1-700x392.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147-1-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147-1-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147-1-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-the-processor-2048x1147-1.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/392;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"621\">The platform uses Qualcomm\u2019s third-generation Oryon CPU architecture and includes an AI engine rated at 80 trillion operations per second (TOPS) for on-device AI tasks. Reported configurations include a 10-core option and a 6-core option, targeting mainstream thin-and-light designs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"621\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-450964 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.menatech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-2-processors.webp\" alt=\"Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Plus-2-processors\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"1032\">Qualcomm also tied the chipset to connected-PC features, including optional 5G via the Snapdragon X75 modem, along with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support. On security, reported protections include a Qualcomm secure processing unit (SPU), support for Microsoft Pluton, and optional Snapdragon Guardian technology aimed at enterprise-style device management and protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Plus chipset ahead of CES 2026, positioning it as part of its Snapdragon X Series for the first wave of Copilot Plus laptops expected to arrive in early 2026.\u00a0 The platform uses Qualcomm\u2019s third-generation Oryon CPU architecture and includes an AI engine rated at 80 trillion operations per second (TOPS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":450961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29324],"tags":[29465,29372],"audience-intent":[],"content-types":[],"country":[],"entity":[],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-450929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ces-2026","tag-electronics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"audience-intent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience-intent?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"content-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-types?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=450929"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=450929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}