Meet Snapdragon X Plus: Qualcomm says its slowest CPU still beats Intel

Laptops using Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon chips have yet to ship. But PC makers — and you — will now have another option: the Snapdragon X Plus.

Think of the Snapdragon X Plus as Qualcomm’s version of the Intel Core i5: It’s based on the same design as the Snapdragon X Elite, the Arm PC processor that Qualcomm has been talking about since last fall. But it’s stripped down, with fewer cores, and without the “turbo” characteristics of its more powerful sibling. On the other hand, Qualcomm...