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Qualcomm's CEO took the COMPUTEX 2025 keynote stage in Taipei a year after Snapdragon X entered the PC market, citing 85+ Snapdragon X PCs launched or in development and joined by Microsoft, ASUS, HP and Lenovo executives.

Qualcomm's fiscal third quarter brought $10.37 billion of revenue, up 10%, and record automotive chip sales of $984 million, though the shares slid after hours.

Qualcomm's tenth Snapdragon Summit ran three days in Maui, where it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phone chip and the 5 GHz Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite PC processors, with Google's Rick Osterloh, Adobe's Shantanu Narayen and HUMAIN's Tareq Amin on stage.

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.

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.

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 closed fiscal 2025 with record QCT chip revenue and $44.3 billion in total sales, but a $5.7 billion non-cash tax charge tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act turned the quarter to a GAAP loss.

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 and Google disclosed a memory-corruption bug in an open-source Qualcomm graphics component, affecting more than 230 chipsets, that 'may be under limited, targeted exploitation'.

Qualcomm launched Snapdragon C, an entry-tier laptop processor with an integrated NPU for machines from about $300, with designs from Acer, HP and Lenovo aimed at students, families and small businesses.

Qualcomm's CEO gave the opening keynote of COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei, declaring 2026 'the year of agents' and forecasting 40x growth in token demand by 2030, as partners showed new Snapdragon X2 PCs including the first X2 Elite desktop.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2026 ran 22-24 September in Maui under the theme 'Snapdragon for the Agentic Age', launching the 2 nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6, Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 and Linux support for Snapdragon X2 PCs.

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.

Qualcomm's breach-of-contract and interference case against Arm is set for a jury trial before Judge Maryellen Noreika in Wilmington, seven months later than first scheduled.