The Snapdragon 8 Elite doesn't just have a new name — it has an entirely new CPU, leaving the company's ARM Cortex-based Kyro CPUs in the past as we rush towards 2025. With the introduction of Oryon,

It wouldn't be a new chip without AI being crammed in, and Qualcomm has indeed embedded the Snapdragon 8 Elite with its Hexagon NPU. The chip maker claims it is 60 percent better in terms of "AI performance" than the previous generation, but that remains to be seen in real world applications.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform features custom-designed cores in the CPU, GPU, and NPU to dramatically improve speed, efficiency, and AI for next-generation flagship smartphones.

New CPU cores replace more complicated mix-and-match of CPU architectures. Qualcomm has a new chip for flagship phones, and the best part is that it uses an improved version of the Oryon CPU architecture that the Snapdragon X Elite chips brought to Windows PCs earlier this year.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip boasts major CPU, GPU, and AI architecture changes. Here's everything explained in fine detail.

At Qualcomm Summit 2024, they revealed the powerful new Snapdragon 8 Elite (not the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, as expected), with all of the key specs that'll go into your 2025 flagship phone. Here's everything we know.

Qualcomm today unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform, which features a next-generation custom Qualcomm-designed Oryon CPU instead of