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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 reaches 5GHz while going big on agentic AI

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First look: Echoing Apple's recent iPhone 18 unveiling, Qualcomm has introduced two new Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile processors with AI assistants as a primary focus. While the chips significantly outperform the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in CPU performance, GPU performance, and power efficiency, Qualcomm clearly sees AI agent support as the new lineup's main selling point.

Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 at this year's Snapdragon Summit. The mobile SoCs will power future flagship Android devices from Doubao, Honor, Motorola, Oppo, RedMagic, Stepx, Vivo, and Xiaomi.

Built on a 2nm process node that enhances power efficiency by 37%, both chips feature two Oryon Prime CPU cores that achieve 5GHz, six 4GHz performance cores, and 16MB of Flex Cache. While the standard Elite Gen 6...

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YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them

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