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Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon X2 Elite & Extreme For Windows PCs

Qualcomm’s new chipsets bring faster CPUs, stronger GPUs, and upgraded AI, with the first laptops expected in early 2026.

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10 months ago

September 24, 2025

Nour Nasir

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Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, the second generation of its Windows-on-Arm chip designed to challenge Intel and AMD in the PC market. Qualcomm is marketing them as “the fastest and most efficient” processors for Windows laptops, though rivals are likely to dispute that claim.

Built on a 3nm process, the X2 line offers up to 31 percent faster CPU performance than the first-generation Snapdragon X Elite at the same power, or up to 43 percent less power use. GPU performance per watt has improved 2.3 times, thanks to a new 1.85GHz GPU. The chips feature Qualcomm’s third-generation Oryon CPU, with up to 18 cores: 12 cores running at up to 4.4GHz, and two cores capable of reaching 5GHz. Qualcomm says this clockspeed is a first for Arm CPUs.

AI performance has also been scaled up. A new Hexagon NPU delivers 80 TOPS, offering 37 percent more performance at 16 percent lower power draw. Qualcomm claims it is the fastest laptop NPU available today. Other upgrades include 18MB of high-speed cache, branded Adreno High Performance Memory, intended to improve gaming performance, which lagged in the first generation.

The company is pitching the Extreme variant as delivering “up to 75 percent faster CPU performance” compared with high-end chips like Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285H and AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The comparisons, however, come with caveats: Qualcomm has not published fully labeled graphs, and its testing shows the Extreme drawing over 50W of power, suggesting it will scale into larger laptops beyond thin-and-light designs.

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Qualcomm claims efficiency gains could extend battery life beyond a single workday, though last year’s X Elite machines generally managed 14-18 hours per charge. Creative software performance is another focus: Adobe benchmarks suggest 28 percent faster Photoshop edits, 43 percent faster Lightroom exports, and similar boosts in Premiere.

Meanwhile, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan also announced Synapse software support for Snapdragon Windows laptops, though he stopped short of confirming a Snapdragon-based gaming machine.

The first laptops powered by Snapdragon X2 Elite and Extreme are expected in the first half of 2026.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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2 days ago

July 13, 2026

Dana Saadeh

a three-clinic network bets dubai is ready for longevity medicine

Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.