If the specs seem outdated, it’s because this chip launched in 2024. It’s available at cloud providers including Cirrascale
I'm starting to believe in Qualcomm! The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is alas only available in a single system, with it's tri-channel on-package (!) memory good for 228 GB/s. But it's a beast. The core is just good, even in the mainstream form in other systems: some of the best single core performance you can get, shy of Apple.
And they are upstreaming their stuff much better! They hired a bunch of really good known FOSS developers and it seems to be working!
Now they are talking up High Bandwidth Compute as their next big thing. And I want to believe, even if it makes me nervous that they too intend to leave consumer computing completely in the dust. https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/11/qualcomm-hbc-valid...
This is, as commented, at M4 Max levels of GB/s. It is not impressive. It has some uses! But if this was their modern opening salvo I would not be impressed.
Someone drop the YouTube link of their robot presentation
Why is on-package memory impressive/better in this case? It's one channel more than your typical consumer x86 system (192-bit bus vs 128-bit) which is something but you could technically have quad channel with two LPCAMM2 sockets?
It's radically simpler and smaller a computer to build. That has huge upsides. For laptops maybe this isn't a huge win, but for tablets and smaller computers, this is such an incredible win. And for making it simpler to build computers, to expand the range of who can make systems? It's everything.