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.

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, some surprisingly powerful gaming performance,

At the Snapdragon Summit 2024, held from October 21 to 23 in Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm officially introduced the Snapdragon 8 Elite, marking a significant shift in naming conventions by departing from the "Gen" series models.

Qualcomm debuted its Oryon cores with the Snapdragon X Elite back in 2023, but the company has been talking about those cores since 2022. They're custom Arm core designs rather than the off-the-shelf cores that Qualcomm typically used from Arm,

Today in Maui, Qualcomm took the wraps off of its newest silicon – Snapdragon 8 Elite. That’s right, a new name to go along with the world’s fastest chipset in a phone. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite can reach clock speeds of 4.

The release of the Snapdragon 8 Elite will mark the most significant upgrade in Qualcomm's mobile chips since the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The Elite branding and Oryon CPU are migrating down from Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite for laptops.