CES 2026 was very much a battle of silicon-makers, with laptop OEMs announcing new wares with brand-new chips from Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD. While most laptops still ship with Intel chips, the Snapdragon X2 Elite had its own entries, although this time, it was only from Asus, HP, and Lenovo.
It's less of a big bang launch than the first generation was. When Snapdragon X Elite devices were announced, 18 laptops were unveiled on the same day from all brands. It's probably the biggest same-day laptop launch in history. It's not surprising that it didn't happen again.
And the Snapdragon X2 Elite looks pretty good, with the Extreme variant topping 4,000 in single-core benchmark scores and an 80-TOPS NPU. Obviously, independent testers like myself haven't gotten their hands on it yet, but from what I've seen, the Snapdragon X2 Elite series is going to deliver a solid package compared to Intel Panther Lake.
Here are all of the Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops announced at CES 2026.
Asus Zenbook A16 and A14
The Asus Zenbook A14 was one of my favorite laptops from 2025, and it's getting a spec bump. Even more notably, you'll actually be able to buy one with a Snapdragon X2 Elite in the United States, whereas with the previous generation, you could only get the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core.
The Zenbook A16 is all-new, and as the name suggests, it's a 16-inch version of the A14. It still only weighs in at 2.64 pounds. What's really cool is that it comes with the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, and in fact, it's the only laptop announced at CES to use the Elite Extreme SKU. It's also the only 16-inch Snapdragon X2 Elite product announced.
Asus ProArt PZ14
The Asus ProArt PZ14 is a tablet for creators, hence the ProArt branding. Along with the Snapdragon X2 Elite 18-core, it comes with a 14-inch 3K 144Hz OLED display.
It weighs in at 1.74 pounds, without the keyboard of course, and it's 9mm thin. It's got two USB4 ports, and interestingly, a full-size SD card reader. SD card readers made a bit of a comeback on Asus's lineup this year due to a new part on the market that allows it to fit in smaller devices.
HP OmniBook Ultra and EliteBook X
I know, I know. I said I haven't had my hands on Snapdragon X2 Elite. That's not quite true. HP sent me pre-production units of the OmniBook Ultra and the EliteBook X, but I obviously wasn't allowed to benchmark it, and I won't even comment on performance since these units aren't optimized yet. Also, to be clear, only the OmniBook Ultra that was sent to me was a Qualcomm model.
I think the OmniBook Ultra might be the new best laptop out there, and both it and the EliteBook X come in Intel and Snapdragon flavors, with the latter also being offered with AMD. They've got the works. All-new keyboards, OLED displays, and the OmniBook Ultra has a haptic touchpad.
Also, what's really interesting is that HP gets its own exclusive SKU of the Snapdragon X2 Elite, which has an 85-TOPS NPU instead of the one everyone else gets with an 80-TOPS NPU.
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x
Like the Asis Zenbook A14, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is a spec bump to get it to the Snapdragon X2 Elite. One thing I didn't like about the first-gen model was the Snapdragon X Elite that Lenovo chose. It was the lesser of the three options, but with this generation, Lenovo picked the proper 18-core SKU.
Aside from that, it has a 2.8K OLED display, three USB4 ports, Wi-Fi 7, up to a 2TB SSD, and so on.
There's more coming
You're going to see more products on the way from OEMs like Acer, Dell, and Microsoft, of course. Microsoft is pretty committed to Snapdragon, and all of the OEMs are seeing some level of success here.
Qualcomm's own announcements at the show included two SKUs of a new Snapdragon X2 Plus, which are 10-core and 6-core. Most of the products above also come in configurations with these new chips. They'll all ship in H1.