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Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processors, introducing a two-tiered flagship mobile strategy.

Snap highlighted its $2,195 Specs augmented reality glasses at Snapdragon Summit, showcasing untethered computing and gesture controls in a commercial device.

Qualcomm has outlined the engineering principles behind pushing its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 mobile processor to 5GHz, emphasizing burst AI workloads and physics limits.

Qualcomm and Apple have transitioned their flagship mobile processors to TSMC’s 2nm process, taking opposing approaches to CPU cores, graphics, and AI processing.

Qualcomm and MediaTek have announced their 2nm mobile processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Dimensity 9600 Pro, setting up flagship phones for 2027.

Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-tier Extreme variant at Snapdragon Summit, featuring 5GHz Oryon CPU cores designed for agentic AI.

Motorola previewed its new flagship phone, the Signature 27, featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor and a 200-megapixel periscope camera.

A teardown confirms the US iPhone 18 Pro Max retains Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X80 modem, even as global variants and smaller Pro models switch to Apple’s C2 chip.