TL;DR: Qualcomm will unveil its next-gen Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile processor next week, marking the fifth generation of its premium 8-series. The new SoC features a 4.74GHz CPU clock and is ...

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 continues with the familiar mix of high-frequency and low-frequency cores in an 8-core design, ...

Smartphone AI is moving off the cloud and onto the device itself. With the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite Gen 5 ...

Qualcomm Has a New Naming Conversation. Again! Qualcomm has changed the naming convention for the flagship 8 series processors, which is now easier to remember; the new naming convention matches the X ...

TL;DR: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor costs $240-$280 per chip, significantly higher than previous generations, due to expensive TSMC 3nm fabrication. This price hike signals that 2026 ...

Qualcomm has announced that its new flagship processor will be called “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.” Xiaomi has confirmed that its next flagship phone lineup, the Xiaomi 17 series, will be powered by the ...

Let’s start with the good news. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 features Qualcomm’s custom Oryon CPU cores, the same architecture foundation as its Elite models — no Arm Cortex cores here. Qualcomm doesn’t ...

Last year Qualcomm revamped it naming conventions for flagship processors. Instead of launching a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip the company introduced a Snapdragon 8 Elite as the first mobile processor to ...

Qualcomm’s upgraded chipset for 2026 Android flagship phones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, is finally here. The company isn’t just talking about higher clock speeds or better benchmarks but also ...

In case you missed our other coverage from Snapdragon Summit 2024, new second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for Windows on Arm laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5—Qualcomm's ...

No, Qualcomm didn’t skip a few generations. No, Qualcomm didn’t skip a few generations. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at ...