Microsoft Refreshes Surface Lineup With Snapdragon X2 Plus Chipset
At day two of Snapdragon Summit 2026, Qualcomm briefly spoke about its Snapdragon X2 Plus platform for laptops. There are no new processors in this category, to be clear, but it has extended its portfolio for its platform to three new laptops: two from Microsoft, and a Googlebook from HP. Snapdragon X2 Plus For Microsoft […] The post Microsoft Refreshes Surface Lineup With Snapdragon X2 Plus…
During the Snapdragon Summit 2026, Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon X2 Plus platform, which introduces three new laptops from Microsoft and HP. Microsoft refreshed two of its Surface products with this processor, the Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13. Both laptops boast the new chipset, which offers improved power efficiency, faster graphics performance, and enhanced AI inferencing capabilities.
However, due to the ongoing memory crisis, Microsoft has raised the prices and removed configurations with less than 16GB RAM. The Googlebook 14, from HP, is equipped with the older Snapdragon X Elite chipset.
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