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Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 3 nm phone chip with a 4.74 GHz third-generation Oryon CPU that it called the world's fastest mobile system-on-a-chip, for flagships from Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus and a dozen other brands.

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite, 3 nm Windows PC processors with up to 18 Oryon cores, the first Arm-compatible CPU to reach 5 GHz and an 80 TOPS NPU, for laptops in the first half of 2026.

A Delaware federal judge threw out Arm's last claim, ruled that Nuvia did not breach its Arm architecture licence and refused Arm a new trial, turning Qualcomm's December 2024 jury win into a final judgment.

Qualcomm bought Ventana Micro Systems, the Cupertino designer of high-performance RISC-V server CPU chiplets, to build RISC-V CPUs alongside its custom Arm-based Oryon cores.

At CES 2026 Qualcomm added the Snapdragon X2 Plus to its PC line, a 3 nm chip with up to 10 Oryon cores and an 80 TOPS NPU that brings X2-series performance and multi-day battery life to lower-priced Copilot+ laptops from the first half of 2026.

Qualcomm unveiled two flagship phone chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026 - the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 - on a 2 nm process with 5 GHz Oryon cores, the X105 modem and Wi-Fi 8, for phones from Xiaomi, OnePlus, OPPO, vivo, Honor and Motorola.