In late September, Qualcomm will unveil its next-gen flagship chipset, the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite from last year. We’ve been tentatively calling this the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, but today a new rumor out of China claims that might not be its name at all.
Instead, Qualcomm could opt for the initially much more confusing Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. There are two reasons for this, if it does pan out. First, while “Gen 5” sounds weird since the 8 Elite only came out last year, that chip was actually the successor to the 8 Gen 3 (so it’s “Gen 4” despite not being called…
