Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6: Qualcomm moves to 2 nanometres and 5 GHz on smartphones
On 22 September in Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled two chips for high-end smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, made on TSMC’s 2-nanometre process and designed to run AI assistants directly on the phone. They arrive as soaring memory prices shrink the smartphone market, while chip names, for their part, keep getting longer.