Qualcomm to launch two flagship mobile chipsets this year

According to a popular tipster, Qualcomm will launch not one but two flagship chipsets for mobile devices this year.

Every year, Qualcomm launches one flagship chipset for mobile devices. For example, last year, the brand launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite, and the year before that, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Well, that isn’t going to be the case this year.

According to a popular tipster from China, Digital Chat Station, Qualcomm will launch two flagship chipsets this year, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 (or Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2) and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (via Android Authority).

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The tipster claims that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will not be a successor to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. In other words, it will not be positioned as a lower-level chipset compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. Reportedly, it will use the in-house developed Oryon CPU cores and be made on TSMC’s N3P fabrication process.

At the moment, there’s no information on how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will be different from the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. DCS suggests that most leading smartphone manufacturers have already made plans to use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 for their upcoming devices. However, there’s no information on whether Samsung is one of them.

Abid Iqbal Shaik - Writer

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