WW 951: The ODBC of AI - Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Promises Blazing Speeds!
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
Paul Thurrott reports live from Maui with exciting details on Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite chip and how it could shake up the PC world, while behind the scenes, Microsoft quietly drifts further from OpenAI just as an NVIDIA mega-deal makes headlines. Is Windows about to get its biggest reboot in years, and can ARM finally topple Intel?
Windows
- 25H2 is imminent: The real ISOs and eKBs are here!
- Paul's Arm-based trip to Mexico and Arm-based Apple-tastic experience at Snapdragon Summit
- And yet. It's Week D. And we didn't get any preview updates (for 24H2)
- Windows AI Labs is a thing
- If you're migrating from Windows 10 get a Windows 11 on Arm PC, Microsoft suggests
- New AI features coming to Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool
- New Dev and Beta (and Canary) builds: Click to Do translation, Share with Copilot, Accounts management improvements
AI
- The Microsoft/OpenAI rift widens yet again
- NVIDIA invests $100 billion in OpenAI, days after "investing" $5 billion in Intel
- Intel will keep making its own GPUs because who gives a crap
- Microsoft is bringing Anthropic Claude to Microsoft 365 Copilot - "Model choice"
- Microsoft reportedly trying to pay publishers for content used by AI
- Microsoft Teams is getting more agents
- Google Chrome is getting a major AI update
Snapdragon Summit 2025
- 6G, AI as the new UI, glasses as the next wave, Android PCs out of nowhere
- X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme (with up to 18 cores for ultra-premium PCs)
- 3rd Gen Oryon CPU (X2 was 1st gen, last year's phone chip was G2)
- 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
- First Arm chip to hit 5+ GHz
- New Adreno GPU architecture with 2.3x perf per watt and power efficiency over previous gen
- Hexagon NPU with 80 TOPS for "concurrent AI experiences" on Copilot+ PCs
- Supports latest 5G SD X75 modem, Wi-Fi 7, BT 5.4
- 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
- Bad news: First half of 2026 availability
- Not in the press release: The secret of why X2 Elite Extreme is so fast
Xbox
- Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time in 2025
- Here comes the Gaming Copilot on Windows 11
- Google is copying it on Android and bringing Android and native games to Windows now
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Think of 1 story for everyone you care about
- App pick of the week: Notion 3.0
- RunAs Radio this week: Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls
- Brown liquor pick of the week: High Coast Whisky Quercus IV Mongolica
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrat is here. He is actually at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, |
| 0:06.6 | and we have breaking news about a new Snapdragon processor. Paul has all the details, plus a look at a variety of new features coming to Windows soon. |
| 0:17.1 | It's going to be a jam-packed episode stay tuned windows weekly is next podcasts you love from people you trust this is twit this is windows weekly with pa Therod and Richard Campbell. |
| 0:39.6 | Episode 951, recorded Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. |
| 0:45.4 | The ODBC of AI. |
| 0:48.8 | It's time for Windows Weekly. |
| 0:51.4 | Hello, you winners and you dozers. |
| 0:56.4 | This is the show we cover the latest from Microsoft with a dynamic duo of Microsoft coverage. He's back. He was missed. Richard Campbell is here |
| 1:04.1 | in beautiful, the host of Runners Radio and dot net. Very foolish, foolish thing to fly on a Wednesday. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm never doing it again it's oh yeah you got |
| 1:12.2 | stuck in uh in the airport or in frankfoot yes frank foot was coming back from valencia to |
| 1:18.4 | amsterdam and i figured ah it's an internal flight it's not going to be a big deal land in |
| 1:22.1 | frankfort ah your next leg's been canceled thanks for playing that's thanks yeah we know if you're |
| 1:27.2 | not here it's because you've moved heaven and earth and or attempted to. I seriously consider making them fly me the next day and getting a hotel room just to get on the show. No, no, no, no. We miss you, but not. I didn't want to miss the wedding. And that's what I was trying to get to Amsterdam to to go to a oh yeah that's right did you get to |
| 1:45.0 | the wedding i did get to the wedding yes good that's all the matters yeah and now we're not going to |
| 1:49.6 | talk about where paul is because we're phenomenom phenomenally jealous paul is in maui wowie yeah yeah |
| 2:09.6 | even even even in Even in the tropical paradise, Paul is still a little, little grumpy. You want to go to the beach. |
| 2:10.6 | Are you tired? |
| 2:11.6 | No, I don't think you could swim in the beach right where we are at this particular resort. |
| 2:16.6 | But it's a, I don't know, it's been a long, a lot of travel. |
| 2:23.4 | I know Richard does this kind of stuff all the time, but I am not. |
| 2:25.6 | It's hard. |
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