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Microsoft Surface Pro and Laptop With Snapdragon X2 Plus

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Today at Snapdragon Summit, we introduced the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, built on the Snapdragon X2 Plus processor, alongside the new Surface Mouse with integrated haptic feedback. Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch are two of our most versatile Surface devices, designed to deliver the performance and battery life people need in PCs they can comfortably carry all day. This generation brings up to 18% more efficient battery performance, over 60% faster graphics, and 95% faster on-device AI—all in the same lightweight design.

What defines Surface laptops? Surface is hardware built to bring the best of Microsoft to life—Windows, Copilot, and Microsoft 365 experiences that make a PC feel more useful, more personal and more responsive. That work starts long before the chip is finished. Surface engineers partner with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. during silicon development to help make sure Snapdragon X2 is tuned for the realities of thin, light PCs: sustained performance, efficient power use, quiet thermals and responsive on-device AI.

It's the innovation role Surface has always played: turning what's possible in Windows into products people can hold, carry and use every day. We did it with touch, pen, and haptics. We're doing it now with AI on the PC. With Snapdragon X2 Series and Windows, you shouldn't have to choose where that AI runs. Supported experiences can use the device, the cloud, or both, so you get lower latency, less dependence on cloud calls and tokens, and more privacy when your data stays with you.

The result is more than a processor upgrade. Compared to previous generations, Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus offer: Up to 17% faster in Office productivity workloads, up to 18% more efficient battery performance, more than 60% faster graphics performance, and up to 95% faster local AI inferencing on the NPU. Peak numbers only tell part of the story. What matters is hour six—twenty tabs, a call running, something rendering—and the machine still calm and quiet in your hands.