Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip could tip a new PC CPU

Qualcomm just launched its new Oryon CPUs and the Snapdragon 8 Elite at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui. While these chips might be designed for phones and not PCs, the next-gen Oryon CPU core within those chips could be headed to PCs in a future iteration of the Snapdragon X Elite. Referring to the new CPU as just a "second-generation Oryon CPU core," Qualcomm isn't giving it a definitive name -- but the company is making a substantive change: adding "prime" cores while also tweaking the performance of its existing performance cores. To be clear, Qualcomm hasn't explicitly stated that the new Oryon cores are headed to PCs, or even that a PC version of these new Oryon cores would have the same configuration as the Snapdragon X Elite. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is headed to phones, with many of Qualcomm's existing customers building smartphones around the new chip.