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Qualcomm’s New Chips Power AI and 8K Video for Top Android Phones — and They’re Coming Soon

The new 2nm chips add agentic AI, 8K video capture and up to 40% gaming power savings, Qualcomm said.

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A pair of top-tier Snapdragon chips will empower AI, boost graphics and enable 8K video in next year’s phones.

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Qualcomm has unveiled the next-generation ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite’ platform, becoming the first mobile CPU to break the 5GHz barrier. It significantly enhances artificial intelligence (AI) computing performance, enabling massive AI models with over 30 billion parameters to run directly on the smartphone, while the top-tier model boasts a 44% increase in GPU performance compared to its predecessor. Qualcomm announced on the 22nd (local time)

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Qualcomm has announced its new high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series of system-on-chips at the Snapdragon Summit. For the first time, Qualcomm announced its new generation of high-end chips in two versions, ... Read more

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New mobile platforms use 2 nm process and promise to expand artificial intelligence, games, cameras and connectivity on top-of-line mobile phones

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cnet broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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