Qualcomm is introducing another Arm laptop chip to its Snapdragon X series today, lowering the cost of Copilot Plus PCs to around $600. The new Snapdragon X joins the existing Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite and will be available in a variety of devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo in the coming months.

If you weren’t tired of ARM-based PCs, Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon X eclipses X86 in power efficiency for cheap PCs.

Qualcomm has entered the affordable $600 laptop market with its new 8-core Snapdragon X processor, which should shake up the budget-class Windows laptop space.

Laptops with the hardware are said to be powerful yet energy efficient. Also, Qualcomm is developing a Snapdragon X Series desktop.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Platform brings power and efficiency to $600 laptops, scheduled to launch in the coming months.

An upcoming budget-focused Snapdragon X processor will join the X Elite and X Plus lines. The company is also bringing its CPUs to the market for mini desktops.

Qualcomm is lining up the Snapdragon X against Intel’s ( INTC) Core 5 120U processor, which is also used to power mid-range PCs. Overall, the company says its Snapdragon X offers better performance per watt than the competing Intel chip and is better suited for AI tasks.

Qualcomm's latest chip for PCs, Snapdragon X, announced at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, is aimed at the mid-range market.

Qualcomm revealed today a new ARM-based Snapdragon X chip for entry-level PCs the $600 price range. The new chip will complement Snapdragon X Plus variant with 8 CPU cores the company announced in September.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today announced the Snapdragon X Platform, the fourth platform to join the Snapdragon X Series compute portfolio, that has been designed to deliver performance, multiday battery life and Copilot+ PC experiences.