Apple silicon turbocharged the MacBook family and cemented its status as some of the best laptops you can buy for blistering performance and jaw-dropping power efficiency. With Snapdragon X Elite, however, that may all change.

The Snapdragon X Elite platform allegedly offers up to 65% less power consumption than the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, while still matching performance.

The leaked renders are not confirmed to be legitimate, but if they are, they're the first look at a Windows 11 laptop powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite CPU. The leaked renders show a laptop that looks a lot like the Lenovo Slim 7 (Gen 9) with Intel Core Ultra CPUs that is available now, albeit with a raised communication bar and fewer ports.

The new Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus chips, however, are Qualcomm's first major foray into the laptop market. Benchmark data from Geekbench, which Android Authority previously published, shows that the chips should perform quite well in their battle against Intel and Apple chipsets.

According to Qualcomm, it sounds like there will be some news related to Snapdragon X Elite on April 24, but what could it be?

It's been an open secret for some time, but now it's all but confirmed that the upcoming Surface Laptop 6 for consumers will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC.

But there could be new competition on the way.Qualcomm is the company that Apple has been desperately trying to ditch for years. It's the company that builds the modems that go into iPhones and iPads and Apple is thought to be working on its own modem so it can have more control over its products.