Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has finally started, and on its very first day, the chip-maker has dropped a bomb with its new laptop-grade chip, Snapdragon X Elite. Qualcomm has been trying its hands in the laptop chipset market for the past few years. But the company’s venture in the new territory has been unsuccessful, to say the least. The Qualcomm laptop processors weren’t bad. They had good connectivity and AI features, but the processors were way behind their competitors, like the Apple M1 for example, in performance. But it all started to change back in 2021 when Qualcomm acquired Nuvia and started the development of its custom Arm-based Oryon CPU core. Now, with the Snapdragon X Elite, Qualcomm feels ready to compete in the big leagues. Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite specs Qualcomm Snapdragon X EliteCPU Configuration12x Oryon @ 3.8GHz(single and dual-core 4.3GHz boost)GPUAdreno (4.6TFLOPS)DSPHexagon (45 TOPs)RAMLPDDR5x (8533MT/s) up to 64GBStorageUFS 4.0NVMe over PCIe Gen 4SD v3.0Process4nmDisplay4K60 triple display5K60 dual displayCamera support64MP single36MP dualVideo capture4K HDRH.264, HEVC, AV1 decodeVideo playback4K HDR @ 120fpsH.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1 decodeWirelessWi-Fi 7Bluetooth 5.4ModemSnapdragon X6510Gbps down3.5Gbps up5G sub-6GHz and mmWave The Snapdragon X Elite sports 12 64-bit custom Oryon CPU cores distributed among three clusters. These cores have a clock speed of 3.8GHz and a large 42MB total cache pool across the CPU. Qualcomm didn’t provide specific cache information. However, one of two of these cores can hit the clock speed of 4.25GHz in the boost mode for additional single-threaded performance. According to the company, this is…Qualcomm debuts powerful laptop-grade Snapdragon X Elite chip