ASUS Ascent QN10 Mini PC Powered By Snapdragon X2 Elite Seeing Linux Support

In addition to a number of laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 beginning to see Linux support, there's now a X2 Elite powered mini PC seeing Linux patches too. If you are intrigued by the prospects of a Snepdragon X2 Elite powered mini PC, Qualcomm engineers this weekend posted patches for bringing up the ASUS Ascent QN10 on Linux. The ASUS Ascent QN10 is powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC with Adreno X2 GPU. The mini PC supports up to 32GB of LPDDR5x-9600 memory and can handle up to two SSDs while driving up to four 4K displays and occupying less than 0.7 liters of volume. With 2026 pricing, the base model of the ASUS Ascent QN10 starts out at $1699 USD. With this patch series the Ascent QN10 can now boot Linux and is able to get all the key functionality brought up. "The ASUS Ascent QN10 is a compact desktop computer based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (Glymur) platform, featuring an 18-core Oryon CPU, Adreno X2-90 GPU, and Hexagon NPU. The system comes with 16 or 32GB of LPDDR5x memory, two M.2 NVMe SSDs slots, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, 2.5Gb Ethernet, three USB Type-C ports, four USB Type-A ports, and HDMI output. The HDMI output is driven by the eDP output through a PS195 HDMI converter. The four USB Type-A ports are connected to a GL3590 USB Hub, on one of the USB MP ports. The Ethernet controller is attached on PCIe." Great seeing Qualcomm engineers continuing to work on enabling more Snapdragon X2 products under Linux. Hopefully these patches will be reviewed and queued in time for the Linux v7.5 cycle.