Following a lengthy leak campaign, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is official as the latest flagship chipset poised to power the next generation of Android flagships. As you might have guessed, Qualcomm is going for a unified naming scheme with its ARM-based X Elite laptop chips.
Like the Snapdragon laptop chips, 8 Elite brings an Oryon CPU with a custom eight-core structure consisting of 2x prime cores clocked at 4.32 GHz and 6x performance units working at up to 3.53 GHz. That’s paired with an industry-leading 24MB L2 cache and support for 5,300MHz LPDDR5X RAM.
The new chip is fabbed on…
