At the Snapdragon 2024 Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm officially introduced the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor (official name of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4). As expected, this is an impressive platform with great strides in mobile performance, gaming, photography and artificial intelligence,...
Several mobile device manufacturers have said they will use this chip in their new flagships, and Samsung has also been confirmed as one of the companies that will launch devices equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the coming months.
Accordingly, Qualcomm's new chip is designed to bring computing power to smartphones, helping devices take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the latest version in the Snapdragon series - a chip line that uses the internal Oryon design and is 45% faster and more energy efficient than the previous generation. The Snapdragon 8 Elite chip is manufactured on a 3nm process, including two cores clocked at 4.32GHz and 6 cores clocked at 3.53GHz, Adreno 830 GPU.
Qualcomm currently dominates the market for chips for Android devices, meaning any updates from the company will help smartphone makers better compete with Apple.
According to Qualcomm, the ability to run AI software right on the device takes a huge leap forward with the new Snapdragon chip. Instead of accessing services on a remote server, the response will be much faster.
It is expected that in addition to Samsung's Galaxy S25, which will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, other smartphone product lines such as OnePlus 13, Xiaomi 15, Honor Magic 7 Pro and Realme GT 7 Pro will also be equipped with this chip.
