Your flagship is about to retire. The Qualcomm beast is coming
The well-known Digital Chat Station leakster revealed new details about Qualcomm’s plans on the Weibo platform. The American manufacturer is working on two new systems coded as SM8950 and SM8975. They are to debut on the market as: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and its more powerful version – Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. Both units are to be manufactured using the advanced TSMC N2P technological process (2 nm), which promises not only a leap in performance, but also improved energy efficiency.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will go to Ultra flagships
The Pro variant arouses the greatest emotions. This unit is to be a technological showcase of Qualcomm’s capabilities. According to leaks, Elite Gen 6 Pro will offer support for the latest standard LPDDR6 RAMwhich will ensure much faster data flow and mass storage UFS 5.0. In addition, the system is to have a powerful graphics processor (GPU), without the limitations known from mobile devices, and a more extensive cache memory. We are talking about dizzying speeds – the maximum clock speed can reach from 5 GHz to even 6 GHz. Unfortunately, such a high specification will also result in a much higher production cost of the SoC system, which will also affect the prices of phones.
Reports suggest that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will arrive at future flagships in Ultra versionssuch as Xiaomi 18 Ultra, Oppo Find X10 Ultra or vivo X500 Ultra. Interestingly, Digital Chat Station suggests that sub-brands may also use this system in their top models. Potentially mentioned here are smartphones such as Redmi K100 Pro Max, Realme GT 10 Pro or OnePlus 16.
In turn, the standard variant, i.e Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6is to be positioned as a solution for mid-price flagships. However, there is competition on the horizon. MediaTek does not give up and is working on the system Dimensity 9600also based on 2 nm lithography. Preliminary reports suggest that the Taiwanese SoC may even outperform the basic Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, although the final verdict will only be given by tests of real devices.
